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"Tropic of Capricorn" describes Miller's early life experience in New York. It is a work that describes his inner spiritual world and is also a mockery of modern Western civilization. The book is all-encompassing and reveals the lives of everyone, including his colleagues, various job seekers, his childhood friends, his parents and crazy sister, his friends, etc. In Miller's world of words, everything is free and jumping, everything has no connection but is connected with each other...

The landowner is on the verge of bankruptcy and the cherry orchard will soon be auctioned off. The only rescue measure is to cut down all the cherry trees, build villas and collect rent. The landowner grew up here and was so attached to his homeland that he couldn't bear to cut down the cherry trees and was still reluctant to make up his mind. Eventually the cherry orchard was purchased by a former servant. The landowner's family left forever, living in a foreign land. At the end there is the sound of logging. This drama collection includes Chekhov's masterpieces "The Seagull", "Uncle Vanya", "Three Sisters", "The Cherry Orchard" and the one-act play "Swan Song". Chekhov's plays are more like prose. There is no conflict, no position, and no ending. The dialogue is ineffective, and the monologues tend to be arbitrary. The characters here are kind and noble, but they are all obsessed with fantasy, stumbling and becoming ridiculous in the rapidly changing life. But as long as they still exist, there is still hope for the world to get better, because among the cruel laws of nature, the most admirable thing is precisely "the survival of the weak."

"On War" insists on conducting a systematic and in-depth investigation of war based on practical experience. It puts forward many insights that shine with the brilliance of dialectics in many aspects such as the connection between war and the entire social phenomenon, the mutual transformation of offense and defense, and the role of spiritual factors. It points out the direction of thinking for future generations. The book is divided into 8 parts and 124 chapters. It systematically summarizes war experience and has incisive discussions on many aspects such as the probability of war, the relationship between war and politics, the role of spiritual factors, popular war, and concentration of troops. It is known as a classic of modern Western military theory. This book is a selected edition, which helps modern readers understand the ideological essence of this masterpiece.

"Shakespeare and Books" is the autobiography of its founder, Sylvia Beech. With her candid and funny writing, she slowly unfolds the bustling left bank of Paris: the grand publication of "Ulysses"; Joyce, who is afraid of heights but loves cats; out of friendship with Beech, he was the first to fill in "Ulysses" Gide who made a reservation; Hemingway who bravely liberated Theater Street; George Antheil who forgot his keys and followed the bookstore sign to climb up to his apartment; Fitzgerald who almost jumped off the stairs when he was drunk... Beech, a simple book lover, guarded this castle made of books, and over time, he witnessed a literary legend connected with books. Translator Kaiti's 300 annotations and 10,000-word long introduction complement the main text, and outline three-dimensional and vivid portraits of the masters on the side. This edition also includes precious video materials such as the manuscript of "Ulysses" and the publishing contract.

The 18th century was France's century, and Louis XIV left a strong and stable monarchy to his successors. But in 1789, the game between the "old system" and the "Great Revolution" not only completely destroyed the former, but also discredited it. France also fell into turmoil until Napoleon reestablished order. This book outlines the turbulent picture of this historical period. Colin Jones traces the twilight of the Bourbon dynasty in this ups and downs century with a gripping narrative. The irreconcilable struggle between the royal power and the high court, the irreconcilable divide between the nobility and the common people, the wave of the Enlightenment, the impact of foreign wars... When the legacy of the "Sun King" becomes unsustainable in an increasingly complex environment, the "great nation" is destined to enter a new era.

"The Complete Poems of Frost" belongs to the 4th volume of the Chinese Translation of World Literature Masterpieces series. It contains all 436 poems in the life of Frost, the American poet laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. It is the most complete Chinese translation of Frost's poems in China. Robert Lee Frost (1874–1963) was the most influential poet in the United States in the 20th century, the most national poet in American history, and one of the most popular American poets in the 20th century. Frost's poetry inherited the form of traditional poetry. His poetry drew themes from rural life and had many similarities with the poets of the 19th century, but in comparison, it was less modern. He has won four Pulitzer Prizes and many other awards and honors, and is known as the "Poet Laureate in American Literature." Representative works include: "Selected Poems", "A Witnessing Tree", "In the Mountains", "New Hampshire", "The Stream Going West", "Another Pasture" and "The Glade". The translator Cao Minglun has many years of experience in literary translation. His translation is beautiful and faithful to the original work, and has been recognized and praised by readers and the translation industry. This book will provide Chinese readers with a high-quality translation for a systematic and comprehensive appreciation of Frost.

"Half of a Yellow Sun" is a lament written by the Nigerian female writer Adichie about the Nigerian Civil War in the 1960s (1967-1970). The 13-year-old Ugu comes from a poor family and works as a valet in the house of Odenigbo, a professor at the University of Nsukka. The learning opportunities given to him by his master gradually help him get rid of ignorance and superstition; Olanna, the daughter of the chief of the Igbo tribe, is Odenigbo's girlfriend. Her family had a prominent reputation and wealth before the civil war. Olanna advocates freedom. But she has always kept a distance from her snobbish and opportunistic family; Olanna's twin sister Kenene has been taking care of the family business, and she fell in love with Richard, a British journalist living in Nigeria. Richard, who hates the hypocrisy of post-colonialism, has always tried to record everything that this country has experienced fairly and objectively.

"She is herself only when she is alone in that big room... Anna sat down at the table, looking down at the four notebooks, just like a general looking down from the top of the mountain at the army ready to go in the valley below." Anna, a "free woman", faced the front half Frustrated, she said: "We have refused to live by the rules, and it is normal for life not to respond to us according to the rules." She wrote her life on the verge of collapse in four-color notes: black to recall the past, red about politics, yellow to examine love, and blue to record reality. Tommy, the only reader of Anna's notes, was supposed to inherit his father's business empire, but he fell into confusion at a crossroads in his life. The young man said: "I know what I don't want, but I don't know what I want." One day, he suddenly shot himself in the head... Can the golden notebook that emerged from the four-color notebook rebuild people's inner order? This is an extraordinary woman's detailed and penetrating observations of the world full of contradictions and the relationship between the sexes.

"Cape Cod" (Cape Cod, 1865), a total of about 195,000 words, including 842 notes, about 52,000 words. This book describes Thoreau's three visits to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in an intricately overlapping manner. In addition to the author's often wonderful descriptions of scenery and rich humanistic anecdotes, it also focuses on depicting the changes in nature and the insignificance of human power, as well as the nourishment and enlightenment that nature provides to people's souls. The U. S. National Park Service used this book as one of the basis for formulating the Cape Cod protection plan. Influenced by this book, U. S. President John F. Kennedy also promoted a bill to protect Cape Cod. "Cod Point", "Walden Pond", "Maine Woods" and "Two Rivers" are collectively called Thoreau's "Four Books of Nature". This book is included in the "Chinese Translated Literary Masterpieces" series.

Shakespeare was first a poet famous in the British literary world, and then a great playwright. This book contains all his poetry works. Shakespeare's poems include three long poems ("Venus and Adonis", "The Humiliation of Lucrece" and "The Mistress of Love"), 154 sonnets, a collection of miscellaneous poems ("The Love Seekers"), and two short poems ("The Phoenix and the Turtle Dove" and "Ode to the Queen"). Among them, "Venus and Adonis" (1593) was the most popular love narrative poem of that era. This poem is called Shakespeare's "maiden work". The story is fresh and lively, the melody is beautiful and harmonious, the metaphors are exquisite, the language is magnificent, sometimes witty and funny, sometimes sad and sad. It portrays Venus, the goddess of love, as a charming and unrestrained female image who dares to pursue worldly love. The Sonnets (1609), which is best known to readers, contains 154 sonnets. These 154 sonnets are actually a symbol of the mature development of Shakespeare's humanistic spirit and a monument to his superb artistic level.

Judge Ivan Ilyich, who originally lived a "pleasant and decent" life, suddenly suffered from a terminal illness. The approaching shadow of death was the beginning of his soul awakening. His originally beautiful life became meaningless. He doubted doctors, resented God, and was jealous of his wife and daughter. He suffered physical pain, mental doubts and fear of death, and began to reflect on life and life. The novel uses line drawing to delicately and truly show the extreme psychological process of his gradual approach to death. The style is concise and the details are full of irony and expressiveness. It is the pinnacle of death literature and a masterpiece that shows Tolstoy's constant self-reflection and self-observation and analyzes the secrets of human spiritual life. This novel narrates the history of an ordinary person. As the book says, the life history of Ivan Ilyich is the simplest, most ordinary, and most terrible.

"The Joy of Life" is a collection of essays written specifically for young people by Sir Sir Lubbock, a British banker, liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath. It is divided into two volumes and lists the joys in life in 23 articles, thereby encouraging young people to get out of their confusion about the future, get out of their emotional lows, and start their long journey with a positive attitude towards life. The first volume of "The Joy of Life" mainly talks about reading, making friends, travel, home, science, education and other issues; the second volume mainly talks about health, wealth, painting, music, poetry, nature, work and other issues. "The Joy of Life" and Lubbock's other collection of essays "The Use of Life" can be read as companion volumes. These two collections of essays are very similar to "Collection of Bacon's Essays". They are full of wisdom and abundant quotations, but they are longer and the content is closer to modern life. They are life guides suitable for young people to read. This book is a translation by translator Cao Minglun, with annotations. This book is a translation by translator Cao Minglun, with more than 450 notes.

The homeland that you cannot return to and the foreign country that you cannot integrate into, together become a shackle around your neck... Relatives and friends say that when you come here, you will soon have a big car and a big house, not to mention bags, perfume, shoes and clothes. But in reality, the new life is about working in a restaurant without social security; it is about constantly hearing from your classmates in community college whether you have lived in a real house in your hometown in Africa; it is about escaping from the so-called American uncle's house who wants to do evil things to you; it is about giving up studying in order to pay the rent for that small room with stains on the carpet. Then you remember that he said that the United States is a place of "gains and losses." Later, you meet a boy with eyes the color of high-grade refined olive oil. He likes Africa, but he doesn't have the condescension of other white people. He still likes you. You like him too. You want to like him. But you can't do it. Twelve stories tell the historical pain and social current situation of the homeland, as well as the psychological journey of immigrants' separation and migration.

He slowly poured hot water on my feet, as if he was conducting an experiment. When I was a kid, the hibiscus flowers in the front yard were all red. A schedule drawn by my father is pinned to the wall, with time quotas for studying, lunch breaks, eating, praying, and sleeping. From the second grade to the fifth grade, every time we made a mistake, my father would ask my brother and me to break branches. We always choose pine because its branches are more resilient and are not as painful to fight as the branches of catalpa or avocado. But this time, there were no branches in the bathroom, only a green kettle for boiling water... Others said that Dad was the most upright and brave man. During the coup in Nigeria, Dad published an editorial in the newspaper, saying that he would never stop writing about freedom and truth. Kang Bili, a fifteen-year-old girl, also wants to plant a purple hibiscus that embodies freedom.

"Black Spring" was created during the same period as "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Cancer". The book traces Miller's teenage years in Brooklyn and his time living in Paris. Through constant replays from New York to Paris, as well as surreal dreams and symbolic techniques, Miller outlines people and the cities they live in in a subversive and self-revelatory way, and on a deeper level, he is seeking the spiritual home of the soul.

"The Narrow Gate" is a work published by Gide during his mature period of creation. It is also Gide's representative work. It describes the moral dilemma that the author encountered in real life. The work was completed in 1908, first serialized in the "New French Review" in 1909, and published in a single volume in 1909. The novel describes that the protagonist Jérôme has been in love with his cousin Alyssa since childhood. Although Alyssa also had the same feelings for Jérôme, she abided by the Puritan self-restraint and struggled in the contradiction between pursuing personal happiness and restraining abstinence. She stayed away from happiness in order to obtain happiness. Their relationship was gradually lost in self-humility. Alyssa buried her feelings deeply in her heart, and finally became ill and unfortunately died. In "The Narrow Gate", Gide pushes the mystical experience of love to the extreme, telling a love story that is pure and hot, but also contains boundless loneliness and infinite bitterness.

"Sand and Foam" by Kahlil Gibran is a collection of profound prose poems and fables that explore the mysteries of life, love, spirituality and the human condition. Each chapter in the book is short and concise, but every word is precise. It compares the complexity of life to the fleeting changes of sand, and at the same time compares the eternal power of the universe to the foam of ocean waves. With a gentle and profound writing style, it invites readers to think deeply about their own existence, interpersonal relationships and the inner connection between all things. Its influence spans generations and resonates with people.

Pangu opened the heaven and earth, the great wilderness appeared, all living beings emerged, and calamities began. Li Fan traveled through the prehistoric times and came to Hongjun to become a saint. The timeline of Taoist Zixiao Palace's sermon, and holding the Hongmeng Pearl, began his journey to the prehistoric times. Li Fan, who only wanted to cultivate peacefully and watch dramas to seek immortality, was involuntarily involved in major events such as the prehistoric times. The Secret History of the Ancient World: Did Taozu not want the two Westerners to become saints? Did the Zixiao Palace divide the treasure into a small plot? An analysis of the pre-marriage relationship between Emperor Jun and Xihe Chengtian. Is there any conspiracy behind the appearance of the Ten Golden Crows? The reason why the Lich War broke out. Are Chang Xi and Chang'e the same person? The collision of the Zhoutian Star Formation and the Twelve Capital Gods and Evil Formation are revealed one by one. Quotations from Li Fan: Cultivation is for eating more melons, immortality is for eating melons all the time, and participation is the best experience.

[A new book has been released, titled "Eternal Life in History, Creating a Three-Thousand-Year Family". We sincerely ask for your support! The eldest brother Shi Zichang will be the future King Wen of Zhou, with a latitude and longitude of heaven and earth, and a profound moral knowledge; His unborn nephew Zhongfa was King Wu of Zhou, a powerful and virtuous man who dominated the world. He could have been a salted fish with peace of mind, At most, I write the Book of Songs. It turned out to be the biggest butterfly.

"On War" is a selection of the military theoretical works of Prussian military theorist Clausewitz. The book profoundly reveals the nature of war being subordinate to politics, emphasizes the role of human factors, especially spiritual power, in war, and explains the trend of the nature of war changing to a popular war. The book discusses the dialectical relationship between strategy and tactics, offense and defense, and the purpose and means of war, and puts forward classic theories such as concentrating superior forces to annihilate the enemy. This book is hailed as a classic of modern Western military theory and has had a profound impact on the history of military thought.

"Night Sailing" is an encyclopedia book written by Zhang Dai, a writer and historian in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The book covers astronomy and geography, hundreds of classics and history, three religions and nine streams, gods and ghosts, political personnel, and the evolution of laws and regulations. It contains more than 4,000 items of cultural common sense. This book was written after the fall of the Ming Dynasty (1644), and was not first published until the 40th year of Qianlong's reign (1775). Zhang Dai demonstrates his profound knowledge and wide range of interests through rich and diverse knowledge items in the book. The book not only contains an in-depth analysis of ancient culture, but also intersperses many vivid and interesting anecdotes, making this encyclopedia both academically valuable and full of interest. Zhang Dai named "Night Sailing Ship" to remind people that they can increase their knowledge in small talk and avoid making a fool of themselves due to ignorance in similar situations, showing his unique cultural sentiments and educational concepts.

"Jenny" tells the story of Jenny, the eldest daughter of the German poor Gerhardt, who works as a domestic servant and falls in love with Senator Blanche. Soon, Bronte died of illness unexpectedly, leaving behind a posthumous daughter. Afterwards, Rest, a rich man, fell in love with Jenny and lived with her, but he could not make up his mind about marriage. Later, he was troubled by the obstruction and opposition from his brothers and sisters. He broke up with Jenny under the pressure of his family, returned to the upper class, and finally married Lottie Bess. The two were in love but their work separated, and Jenny spent her middle age alone. After Rest confided his true feelings to her before his death, he died painfully in her arms. Through Jenny's experience, the novel reveals the miserable life of working people under the capitalist system. At the same time, it praises the excellent qualities of hard work, integrity and self-sacrifice of working people, and lashes out at the various evil realities in a society where material desires prevail and money is omnipotent. Since its publication, this work has been translated into many languages ​​and has had a profound impact on contemporary readers.

The book "Secret History of the Taiping Rebellion" deeply explores the little-known historical details and underlying motivations of the Taiping Rebellion in the late Qing Dynasty. The book not only details the glorious journey of Hong Xiuquan and others from the Jintian Uprising to the capital Tianjing, but also reveals the intricate power struggles, diplomatic strategies, and collisions and integrations with traditional social culture within this peasant uprising regime. Through the reinterpretation of a large number of historical materials, the book shows the ideals and practical dilemmas of the leaders of the Taiping Rebellion, as well as the profound impact of this movement on the course of Chinese history, presenting readers with a magnificent and mysterious historical picture.

The new book "Douluo: Reincarnation of Zhongli, I Didn't Want to Fight" has been released, please support (\u003E_\u003C)! ! ! [Tangeda-ryu] [Gou Dao-ryu] [Single-purpose...] Novel plot + comic setting + some secondary settings to promote the plot The descendants of the nameless Soul Saint in the Holy Soul Village at the beginning chose to hide their innate soul power in order to avoid genius assassinations between forces and succeeded. Then intercepted Hu Ayin. Explore the mysteries of the Soul Master. Relying on various old six soul skills, step by step to reach the pinnacle of the Douluo world. "Master? This is a good title. It's mine now." Overthrow the empire√--Save the world√--Upgrade the world Dou 1√→Naruto√→Dou 2√→Original Dou 1√

This book is the first collection of novels by Malaysian Chinese female writer He Shufang, which brings together eleven excellent works. It is called by Huang Jinshu as "the sophistication and maturity shown by the classic Malaysian short stories". It also uses an extremely delicate and graphic psychological style that transcends national borders and geographical differences and touches on the pain points and inner feelings that each of us share as human beings that have never been illuminated or acknowledged, but are by no means unimportant. In these novels, there are often ghosts with no male or female appearance, returning on trains in the haze. I thought the journey was over, but suddenly it started again. Escape somewhere and want to find a new self. But I found that this is a never-ending process, always shaking. As if travelers across multiple oceans of time have sent us letters from the other side of the border of memory, they are written in a language that is both dreamy and authentic. And trying to answer a question - if the whole world is a foreign land, where would we call home?

There are many different people and places in the dream When you wake up, do you think what happened in your dream is real? Or is it fake?

"Island" tells an epic and moving story about family, romance, war, illness and history that took place in Greece - over the years, Alexis discovered that her mother had always been too guarded about her past, not only burying her roots, but also trampling the soil above them. Alexis decided to open up her mother's dusty past. She came to a small town on the Aegean Sea and landed on a desolate island called Spinalonga. This was once an isolated island where lepers were imprisoned. It was a place that made the town, the Aegean Sea, and even the whole of Europe talk about it. It was also a forbidden place for mothers. The forbidden land is opened, and this seemingly abandoned island reveals unexpected bright vitality, and an astonishing secret that has been dormant for half a century is about to emerge... This is the story of Alexis' great-grandmother Eleni and her daughters. This family is torn apart by tragedy, war and passion. This story is about dreams and desires, but also about a secret that is trying to be hidden, and the indelible impact of leprosy on a family for generations. It tells how those brave people looked for hope in despair, and finally discovered that: we are ups and downs in the world, constantly struggling, just to live a calm life.

Is the modern world we live in an era of diminished aesthetic ability? Mu Xin is a Chinese writer who takes the world spirit as his body. Chinese literature has acquired extremely rich cosmopolitan connotations in his style. There is a paradox. Mu Xin is an "exception" to our current literary state, but it is the "normal" in world aesthetics. ... There are various arches in the world, which either show the glory of the empire, celebrate victory, symbolize triumph, or support magnificent religious buildings, rising to the sacred apex with strong and elegant curves. Thought and art are balanced and stable due to the interaction of two counterforces, which are invisible arches: nation and world, East and West, modernity and classics, innovation and inheritance, irony in passion, androgynous imagination. Half of modern art is the fleeting present, and the other half is unchanging eternity, Baudelaire said. And Mu Xin has a saying: "Like half of an arch, I am in danger of falling; like the other half of an arch, you are in danger of falling; the two halves are closely connected to form an arch, and time flows through it like water. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and the arch remains motionless... You must know that your strength lies in me. , All because my strength lies in you." Mu Xin usually refuses to talk about himself, so Tong Ming's literary criticism collection "The Arch" can also be regarded as a "reflected collection of conversations between old friends" between Mu Xin and Tong Ming for nearly 30 years, which is extremely precious.

A Berliner lived an orderly life until one day he suddenly broke into a group of strangers. They spoke a mixed and broken language and traveled across the sea from war-torn Africa to Germany. The early experience of World War II made Berliners value order extremely, and "there is no freedom in chaos." However, as a citizen of the former East Germany, the memory of the Berlin Wall has never been far away, and living an immigrant life in his own country is not an unfamiliar experience - thirty years ago, his country and its future disappeared overnight. By a strange combination of circumstances, he became friends with the refugees, learned about their troubled past, and became deeply involved in their stories. "Only if they survive in Germany today does it mean that Hitler has truly been defeated." In an era of drastic changes, the destiny of mankind is related to each other as never before. When war creates volcanoes on the earth, when huge despair overflows the sea of ​​anger, people also erect high walls on all sides. But is it really possible for peace to exist alone? "The Passing of Time" is a story of encounter with the other: to what extent can humans understand each other's suffering and share peace? Erpenbeck confronts the core moral issues of our time, "intervenes in European issues of race, immigration, nationalism and identity in a literary form, and provides a powerful response to the current deepening crises" (Booker Prize Jury).

A young man who was hospitalized due to a traffic accident was attracted to a small building outside the hospital window and used a telescope to observe the life of that family. Late one night, he seemed to witness the beautiful girl murdering her father. The next night, she mysteriously appeared at the construction site next to the hospital. Is she burying the body? What secret does she have? In order to find out the truth, after he was discharged from the hospital, he began to follow the girl, but fell in love with her, and he became further and further away from the truth...

"The Narrow Gate" tells the story of a love tragedy that is pure and hot but infinitely poignant. Alyssa and Jerome are cousins ​​and childhood sweethearts. They spent a long but carefree childhood in the countryside of Normandy. Love gradually sprouts among boys and girls of the same age. At first, they secretly fell in love with each other, each hiding their secrets and worries. When they are deeply in love, their spirits merge and they want to become a better person for each other and cannot tolerate any imperfection. However, Alyssa saw love in other people's marriages end up becoming ordinary, and she had doubts about the end of love. What she wanted to pursue was eternal love, and she firmly believed that there was immortal love in the world, but the road to eternity was a narrow road, and the door to enter was a "narrow door" that only a few people could find...

"The Shadow of Dreams" is a book of taste that awakens the aesthetic power. The book contains a total of 219 quotation-style essays, each with wonderful comments from the author's friends. Landscapes and gardens, scenery of the four seasons, poems and songs, calligraphy, painting and utensils... The world's leisurely taste, elegance, and wisdom in life are all included. The sentences are classic, short, concise, and thought-provoking. Open this book to discover the joy of life and comprehensively enhance your perception and aesthetic ability.

"Twilight in the Forbidden City" describes the special years from 1919 to 1924, when Johnston formed an indissoluble bond with China at the peak of his life. Johnston painted a unique and longing picture of life in the strange and closed world of the Forbidden City. Johnston was well versed in Chinese history and culture, so the rich historical details of that almost forgotten era emerged from his writing like a claw in the mud.

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Banchichi was a policeman in the Edo period who had handled countless bizarre cases in his life. Kitō Okamoto got to know Banchichi after being famous for a long time, and recorded the process of Hanchichi solving the case in detail, and compiled it into a novel for publication. Since the yamen of the Edo period would often prepare an incident book to record the beginning and end of the cases that the arresters were responsible for, people called this incident book the arrest account, so Kitou named the novel "Hanchichi arrest account". This book not only tells the story of various weird and bizarre cases handled by Hanchichi, but also depicts a detective who is very insightful and resourceful. It also vividly reproduces the world of Japan's Edo period in a variety of expression techniques, which is deeply loved by future generations.

The protagonist Michel has been painted with layers of civilizational "powder" since he was born. He received a strict religious education since he was a child. He is serious and old-fashioned, does not understand life, and has no interest. He spent his youth in books. Later, Michel married the virtuous and gentle wife Marceline at the order of his father, but he did not love her. After the marriage, the two went to North Africa for their honeymoon. Michelle suddenly became seriously ill. After being cared for by his wife, his body gradually recovered, but his temperament changed drastically. He is determined to be his true self, change his past lifestyle, ignore any morality, and pursue an exciting lifestyle. On one side is the stable happiness symbolized by family, on the other side is the degradation and risk symbolized by personal desires. Michelle is in a dilemma, should she follow the secular world or follow her heart?

"The Piano Lesson" is McEwan's latest novel and his most autobiographical work. The novel's rich themes and wide time span surpass McEwan's literary career. Roland's wife Alyssa mysteriously disappeared, which presented a series of colorful individual memories intertwined with major historical events of the 20th century: Roland's special sexual enlightenment experience in adolescence - an inextricable forbidden love with Miriam, a female piano teacher; Alyssa's mother went to post-World War II Germany with a dream of being a writer to pursue the "White Rose", a cultural organization that resisted the Nazis; Roland and Alyssa knew each other and fell in love, got married and had children, until Alyssa resolutely ran away, escaped from the marriage cage to pursue her dream of being a writer, and bravely broke through the life trajectory of the previous generation... The novel takes the life of the protagonist Roland as the main line, stringing together the life experiences of many people around him. Reality and memories are intertwined, creating a vivid and real ordinary individual who is struggling in the torrent of the times. The timeline of the novel spans more than half a century - from World War II to the COVID-19 epidemic, and involves a series of major historical events such as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Thatcher's coming to power, the Falklands War, the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the Chernobyl nuclear leak, the election of the Labor Party, and Brexit. Everyone is a participant in history, and McEwan composes a chronological history with vivid individual narratives.

"Sorrow and Reason" contains a total of twenty-one essays, which are roughly divided into several genres such as memoirs, travel notes, speeches, open letters and eulogies. These essays come in various forms and lengths, but they appeal to a common theme, which is "poetry and poets." This collection of essays can be said to be a key to Brodsky's poetic and aesthetic views, as well as his ethics and worldview. Less than half a year after the completion of the last work in the collection, "In Memory of Stephen Spender," Brodsky himself passed away. Therefore, "Sorrow and Reason" became the last collection of prose published by Brodsky during his lifetime. It is the "swan song" of Brodsky's prose writing and even his entire creation.

"Less than One" is Joseph Brodsky's first collection of essays. It consists mainly of long essays, with a number of short essays. There are only eighteen articles, each of which is wonderful. Coupled with its unique style and "book style", it forms a perfect book. This is the spiritual autobiography of a great poet and a private memoir. With creative interpretation and interpretation, Brodsky completed his tribute to Akhmatova, Auden and others, powerfully defended personal values, and exposed and accused the dictator's crimes. Such accusations do not use public language and diction, but stand at the level of "a poet versus an empire." This height stems from his belief that language is above all else, even the object of time worship, and poetry is the supreme form of language.

This book is O'Connor's most famous short story collection. It was published one year after the writer's death and is known as O'Connor's "Swan Song". It contains ten classic stories. The writer's outstanding short story skills and his core concepts of belief and creation are concentrated in this book. Those phantoms and illusions that obscure reality in the world, the sad and paranoid, arrogant and ignorant, horrifying and violent pairs of mother and son, father and son, father and daughter, grandparents, and couples in the daily life of the South - these people who try to let their voices penetrate the caves of other people's souls, people who seek to make up for their own deformities on the pretext of saving others - are all covered with wounds under the author's poisonous eyes, and all end up with the instant collapse and cruel destruction of their spirits or lives. O'Connor's calm and cruel style reaches its peak in the process of disenchanting these racial beliefs and human moral superiority. The collection "Greenleaf", "Apocalypse" and "All Things Rising Must Converge" won the O. Henry Short Story Award.

Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who lives in an underground cave and loves a comfortable life, is suddenly led into an epic adventure by the wise wizard Gandalf one day. Bilbo and the thirteen dwarves went through all kinds of hardships to regain the treasure from the dragon Smaug. During the journey, he also accidentally discovered a small ring that would later change the history of Middle-earth and laid the foundation for the story of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy. This book contains more than thirty color and black-and-white illustrations drawn by Tolkien for "The Hobbit", many of which are published with the text for the first time and are extremely precious.

Andrew Jackson was the first civilian president in American history and the first Democratic president. After American political society entered the "Jacksonian Era" from the "Jeffersonian Era", the explosive development of the economy and industry posed a huge threat to the principles of American constitutional democracy. Facing a series of challenges, Andrew Jackson vigorously strengthened the power of the president, maintained federal unity, and created "Jacksonian democracy" during his term. The famous historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Deeply analyzed the history, culture, economy and political life of the United States during this period, reinterpreted "Jacksonian democracy", and sharply pointed out the double crisis faced by progressive historiography. In 1946, 28-year-old Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Won the Pulitzer Prize for History with this book, becoming the youngest winner of the prize at the time. This book is still the authoritative history book on this subject.

This volume "The Evil Sect·In the Bamboo Forest" contains more than 30 excellent novels by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Among them, "Evil Sect" succeeds "Hell Change" and tells the story of the prank-loving young master in "Hell Change"; "In the Bamboo Forest" tells a story that has different opinions and highlights the evil of human nature. In 1950, the famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa combined Akutagawa's works "In the Bamboo Grove" and "Rashomon" into one film, "Rashomon", which won many international awards and brought Japanese films to the world.

The Akutagawa Ryunosuke's works series collects the novels, essays, reviews, travel notes, notes, poems, etc. Written by the Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke in his short twelve-year creative career. Based on the eight volumes of "The Complete Works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke" published by Japan's Chikuma Shobo, it completely presents the creative career of Akutagawa Ryunosuke. This volume "Rashomon: Hell Transformation" contains nearly 30 excellent novels by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Among them, "Rashomon" completely presents a moral "debate of good and evil"; "Hell Change" tells the story of a human tragedy caused under the rule of a powerful force, calmly observing the Japanese society at that time where "others are hell".

"Dandelion Wine" is a collection of childhood stories by science fiction master Bradbury. It records the daily life in a small town full of whimsy and relives a period of youth that neither curls up nor lies down. The protagonist of the story is Douglas, a 12-year-old boy who makes dandelion wine with his grandfather every summer. Dandelion wine is "summer on the tip of the tongue", putting all the joy into a bottle and fermenting it into a panacea for growth and cold winter. Summer is the green apple trees, the mowed lawn that exudes the smell of fresh grass, a new pair of sneakers that can make people fly, the distant tram bell in the hazy afternoon; it can also be the departure of a best friend, a puzzling old girl and her A childhood treasure, a happiness machine that can predict the future, a high fever that brushes against death... All these make the boy feel the joy of "living" like never before, with miracles, sentimentality, forgiveness, magic, fantasy, and a never-ending summer.

Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, meaning "Santiago of the Starry Fields") is the capital of the autonomous region of Galicia in Spain, with a population of less than 100,000. According to legend, James, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, is buried here and is one of the Catholic pilgrimage destinations. Since the Middle Ages, pilgrims have come here in an endless stream, and even formed a famous pilgrimage road, the Way of St. James. In 2011, after retiring from his position as ambassador, Lufen decided to embark on a journey to Santiago. "Immortal Journey" is a true record of Lu Fen's pilgrimage. The humorous, self-deprecating and emotional writing style shows not only the basic common sense of pilgrimage, but also the magnificent scenery, interesting things along the way, portraits of unexpected characters, and even the boundless thoughts of a lonely walker between heaven and earth. From the joy of freedom on the Basque coastline to the loneliness, exhaustion and self-doubt bred in the monotonous industrial landscape of Cantabria to Oviedo, where religious inspiration flashes near the end, Luffen finally achieves physical and spiritual transformation. This transformation, as he said, is not about religious piety, but about forgetting, forgetting the constraints of daily life, forgetting the fatigue and bad weather of long distances, forgetting industrialization and material scarcity, and then being spiritually sublimated. This applies to all people with different purposes but walking on their own "pilgrimage paths."

This book collects Margaret Atwood's essays from 1970 to the beginning of the 21st century, including book reviews, literary reviews, creative talks, obituaries, etc. This collection of essays is more like an informal autobiography, showing readers a life full of curiosity. She is a witty critic who offers unique insights into the works of Updike, Angela Carter and others; she is also a cool skeptic who reserves her own views on "female bad behavior" in Canadian history and novels. Her life is as exciting as her narrative: a haunted farm, a misogynistic interview host, an arctic adventure with food poisoning, and literary festivals around the world, leaving readers dizzying. Naturally, there are also reviews of the creation of some classic works, such as "The Handmaid's Tale", "Alias ​​Grace", "Oryx and Crake" and so on. Atwood uses his rich and varied perspective to lead readers on a literary journey, and also goes deep into the reverse flow of time, looking back at some landmark events in the twentieth century and witnessing our journey to the twenty-first century.