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The main contents of "The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes: The Uncanny Valley (Illustrated Collector's Edition)" include: Birlstone's tragedy, warning, Sherlock Holmes' analysis, Birlstone's tragedy, darkness, characters, ray of light, mystery, etc.

"The Adventures" is a collection of detective novels full of legend, adventure and wisdom. It is one of Conan Doyle's "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" series. "The Adventures" tells the story of the strange cases that the justice-sense detective Sherlock Holmes and his loyal doctor friend Watson experienced together. The book contains 12 stories, including "A Scandal in Bohemia", "The Red-Headed Society", "The Mystery of Identity", "The Case of the Speckled Belt", "The Case of the Engineer's Thumb", "The Case of the Bachelor", "The Case of the Jade Crown", "The Mystery of the Valley", "Several Orange Pips", "The Man with Crooked Lips", "The Sapphire Case", and "The Copper Beech Case". The plots of the stories are interlocking and fascinating.

"Treasure Island" by British writer Stevenson is a boy's treasure hunt story, and it is also a profound coming-of-age novel. The boy Jim Hawkins discovered the treasure map of Treasure Island, and together with Doctor Livesey and Squire Trelawney embarked on the great voyage to find the secret treasure. On the way, Hawkins overheard several pirates plotting a rebellion in an apple barrel. The seemingly friendly one-legged pirate - tall John Silver, disguised as a ship's cook, is actually a dangerous pirate leader! When they arrived at Treasure Island, the two sides officially started fighting. Can Jim Hawkins and his partners use their wit and bravery to find the treasure and return home smoothly? In the process of gradually getting to know Silver, Jim Hawkins learned about friendship, loyalty, courage and honor, and truly grew up. In addition, the characters in the book that have left a deep impression on young readers include: the terrifying blind beggar Pew, the crazy Ben Gunn who was exiled to the island, the cursed parrot, etc., Which are full of fun.

This book is the only novel written by female writer Margaret Mitchell in her short life. The story in the novel took place on the eve of the American Civil War. The heroine Scarlett Hao is a pampered manor lady. After experiencing the war, she finally transformed into a strong, self-reliant businesswoman. Her character has multiple characteristics such as selfishness, greed, determination, daring to love and hate, etc. She is one of the richest, fullest and most classic female images in American novels. The alluring love in the novel has become the most romantic and legendary love story in the history of American novels.

This book is one of the major works of Alexandre Dumas, the famous French popular historical novelist. The protagonist d'Artagnan is a son of a provincial nobleman. After arriving in Paris, he joined the musketeers of King Louis XIII and formed sworn friends with three other musketeers. Queen Anna had an affair with British Prime Minister Buckingham, and Anna gave Buckingham a diamond pendant. However, Prime Minister Richelieu, who was an enemy of the queen, sent people to England to steal the two diamonds on the pendant, hoping to make the queen embarrassed at the ball. D'Artagnan volunteered to go to England with three friends. After many twists and turns, he finally retrieved the pendant and saved the queen's reputation.

This book is the representative work of the famous French writer Alexandre Dumas. The story tells a tortuous and sad love story between a young man and a courtesan from Paris's upper class society. Through the love tragedy of a prostitute, the work reveals the corrupt life of the upper class of the French July Dynasty. A bloody and tearful indictment of the hypocritical morality of the aristocratic bourgeoisie. In the history of French literature, this is the first work in which a prostitute is the protagonist.

During a thrilling sea voyage, the ship Robinson was riding sank unexpectedly. He fought against strong winds and huge waves, and finally came to an uninhabited island. In order to survive, he overcame various difficulties that were difficult for ordinary people to overcome. He built residences and boats alone, hunted, fished, raised animals, and rescued captives who were being chased... Finally, he was rescued, bid farewell to the desert island where he had lived for more than 20 years, and returned to the UK on the ship. This book is the representative work of Daniel Defoe, the "father of British novels", and the pioneer of British realist novels. The positive attitude towards overcoming difficulties advocated in the book still has great reference significance today.

The novel describes Raskolnikov, a poor college student, who is poisoned by anarchist ideas, coupled with emotional tension and anxiety, and is full of resentment towards society. Later, forced to make a living, he killed the old woman who was a loan shark and her innocent sister, causing a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful inner struggle, he met Sonia, a girl with a holy soul - a prostitute who fell into prostitution for the sake of an unfortunate family. This eventually became his path to atonement and the dawn of new life...

This book contains many short stories by Maupassant. Most of the protagonists in the stories told by Maupassant are minor characters. These characters constitute the main body of French society, and the stories that happen around them constitute all aspects of secular society. Many of his works, such as "The Necklace" and "My Uncle Jules", have become world famous. Maupassant's short stories are a model of natural storytelling and a model of secular stories ascending to the classics.

This book is a children's novel written by Canadian female writer Lucy Montgomery in 1904. The author uses fresh, smooth, vivid and humorous writing to tell the touching story of the innocent, kind-hearted and life-loving heroine Little Annie, who lost her parents at a young age and was not frustrated by the difficulties of life with the care of her friends and teachers. The novel was published in 1908 and soon became the best-selling book of the year and gradually became popular all over the world.

This book contains a total of 19 short stories and short stories by Mark Twain, among which "One Million Pounds", "Running for Governor", and "The Story of a Californian" are the most famous. "One Million Pounds" is currently included in Chinese language textbooks and is a pearl among Mark Twain's many short stories. The protagonist Henry in "Million Pounds" is a poor American young man who wanders to England. He was accidentally chosen by two rich men and became the person who won one million pounds in the bet. One of the rich men bet that Henry would starve to death in the streets within 30 days, and the other bet that he would not starve to death. In the exaggerated money-oriented society at that time, Henry's life also changed drastically because of this sudden check of one million.

This book is three famous autobiographical novels by Soviet writer Gorky. Through the description of his life and destiny in childhood, boyhood and youth, the author shows the growth process of a progressive young man before the Russian October Revolution. After the death of his father, the young protagonist Alyosha came to his grandfather's house and spent his childhood there. With the death of his mother and the decline of his grandfather's family, Alyosha had to go into society and make a living by being an apprentice and working for others. It was during this time that Alyosha came into contact with books and became immersed in the world of books. The knowledge in the book broadened Alyosha's horizons. With the pursuit of ideals, Alyosha came to Kazan to study alone. In the torrent of the Russian Revolution, under the influence of a group of progressive people, his ideological realm was improved.

The little girl Dorothy and the puppy Toto, who originally lived in Kansas, were suddenly blown to a foreign country-Oz by a powerful tornado. She longed to return to her hometown, to her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry who loved her. To this end, she tried her best, encountered all kinds of dangers, and experienced countless hardships. During her long journey, she was fortunately joined by some new partners: the Scarecrow who wanted "a thinking brain"; the Tin Woodman who only wanted "an active heart"; and the Cowardly Lion who desperately wanted to gain "courage"... They formed a small team and became close traveling companions with each other. During the difficult and bumpy journey, they worked together in unity, shared weal and woe, and overcame all kinds of suffering and torture, and finally realized their respective wishes.

This book is set in the foggy city of London, and describes the story of an orphan named Oliver who was bullied in an orphanage since he was a child. After escaping to London, he unfortunately fell into a den of thieves. The world around him is like a crazy machine, but little Oliver strives to maintain the purity deep in his heart. This persistence finally helped him to wait for a bright future - well-wishers extended a helping hand in time; at the same time, the truth about Oliver's strange life experience was also revealed step by step. While the novel deeply reveals social ills, it also leaves a series of vivid characters in the history of British literature, and has been deeply loved by readers for more than a hundred years.

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

Shakespeare is a universally recognized drama master. His plays contain rich philosophy of life, profound knowledge and endless profound thoughts. "Shakespeare's Comedies" is a collection of Shakespeare's comedy works, including the famous works "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "As You Like It", "Twelfth Night", "The Merchant of Venice", "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "Nothing to Worry". Among them, the first four are called the "Four Comedies". In 1985, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was selected into the list of "Best Books in Human History" recommended by the American "Life" magazine.

"The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" is one of the best-selling literary works in the world. Because of its original layout, suspenseful plot, exquisite and unique narrative techniques and concise and beautiful language, detective novels entered the elegant palace of world literature for the first time, making detective novels an independent literary category and highly praised by the world. In China alone, from the 1980s to the present, the total number of copies printed has exceeded 20 million. In the climactic plot, the confrontation between detectives and criminals, and the confrontation between justice and evil, strongly attracts readers to seek answers, stimulates readers' emotions, mobilizes readers' brains, and makes readers feel terrifying and exciting, but unable to stop. It was difficult to put the book down while reading, but I was deeply impressed after reading it. These magical crime-solving stories have influenced generations of people and are still popular and best-selling.

This article is the most famous work of American children's literature writer Mrs. Burnett and a classic in the world's children's literature. "The Secret Garden" tells a story: Mary, a willful and lonely little girl from a rich family, became an orphan due to a sudden plague and was sent to a relative's home in an old manor in England for adoption. In the secluded and quiet countryside and among the simple villagers, her temperament gradually became peaceful. Late one night, following the faint cry coming from one end of the corridor of the mysterious mansion, she was brought to an equally weird and lonely little life. Colin, Mary's cousin and the young master of the mansion, was born weak and has been bedridden for many years. His temperament is surly and unpredictable. In order to help Colin, Mary took him into the secret garden in the manor that had been closed for many years. The children played undisturbed in the vibrant little world, learned to be friendly to others, and restored their pure and happy nature. A garden that had been closed because of its involvement in the memory of death was now reopened because of the vitality of new life within it. This cannot but be said to be the secret of natural force and the miracle of vitality.

This book is the only novel written by female writer Margaret Mitchell in her short life. The story in the novel took place on the eve of the American Civil War. The heroine Scarlett Hao is a pampered manor lady. After experiencing the war, she finally transformed into a strong, self-reliant businesswoman. Her character has multiple characteristics such as selfishness, greed, determination, daring to love and hate, etc. She is one of the richest, fullest and most classic female images in American novels. The alluring love in the novel has become the most romantic and legendary love story in the history of American novels.

"The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes" is one of the best-selling literary works in the world. Because of its original layout, suspenseful plot, exquisite and unique narrative techniques and concise and beautiful language, detective novels entered the elegant palace of world literature for the first time, making detective novels an independent literary category and highly praised by the world. In China alone, from the 1980s to the present, the total number of copies printed has exceeded 20 million. In the climactic plot, the confrontation between detectives and criminals, and the confrontation between justice and evil, strongly attracts readers to seek answers, stimulates readers' emotions, mobilizes readers' brains, and makes readers feel terrifying and exciting, but unable to stop. It was difficult to put the book down while reading, but I was deeply impressed after reading it. These magical crime-solving stories have influenced generations of people and are still popular and best-selling.

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

The airport was originally just a transitional space during travel, where only "departures" and "arrivals" occurred. However, in the eyes of Alain de Botton, it has become a museum integrating various cultural aspects. In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited to serve as the "first writer-in-residence" at Heathrow International Airport in the United Kingdom. He can get to know passengers from all over the world and interview all kinds of people, including security personnel, pilots, CEOs, and even airport chaplains; he can also enter and exit the departure hall, arrival hall, airport restricted area and airport hotel at will. De Botton uses his unique perspective to explore the familiar and mysterious "non-place" of the airport, observing the wonder and vulgarity, as well as the interaction between passengers and employees. A week later, based on what he saw and heard, and with his usual combination of humor and wisdom, he wrote this extraordinary cross-border cultural and creative work that explores travel, work, relationships and the nature of daily life. Let us know that being in an airport can be more enlightening than we give it credit for.

Alain de Botton, British best-selling author. He is good at using small metaphors to describe big things, exemplifying daily trivial matters and explaining life philosophy. Use simplicity to control complexity, add color at will, and lead people to draw inferences. His writing is euphemistic and elegant, concise and elegant, and captures the interest of classical British prose. "The Charm of Boring" is a collection of essays with concise language and deep writing style. It tries to find the theme of happiness among the details and smiles. De Botton has always pursued how sadness can become happiness, how airports can become scenery, how boredom can become charming, and how happiness can be harvested in unexpected places. With his rich imagery and overflowing talent, de Botton blends sensibility and rationality, random thoughts and philosophical thoughts. Readers may use the brilliant writings of British talents to adjust their mentality, change their horizons, relieve the pressure of life, and realize the true meaning of life.

A fantasy classic as famous as "A Song of Ice and Fire", "The Lord of the Rings" and "Dragonlance"; a boy with white hair and purple eyes walking alone in the darkness, wielding his two swords, cutting off the shackles of fate, and composing a legendary growth poem. The classic fantasy that influenced Chinese online literature is back with a Chinese version fifteen years later. "The Dark Elf" is a work by R. A. Salvador and includes 3 stories.

A fantasy classic as famous as "A Song of Ice and Fire", "The Lord of the Rings" and "Dragonlance"; a boy with white hair and purple eyes walking alone in the darkness, wielding his two swords, cutting off the shackles of fate, and composing a legendary growth poem. The classic fantasy that influenced Chinese online literature has been republished in Chinese after fifteen years. "The Dark Elf" is the work of R. A. Salvador and includes three stories: "Homeland", "Exile", and "Sojourn". It takes the dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden as the protagonist and tells the story of how he was tired of the fighting in his hometown, left the underground and started a new life on the surface. As the series gained popularity, Drizzt became one of the most famous characters in the Dungeons & Dragons: Forgotten Realms novel series. A classic Western fantasy work, with magnificent descriptions of battlefield scenes and profound writing that touches people's hearts, it surpasses similar modern works.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, ice, and the subsequent disasters drove the remaining humans underground, and the mutated creatures brought about by the emergence of the Force turned the sunshine and starry sky into fairy tales. The reborn Lin Mu awakened the ability to decompose and reorganize, and combined with his rich mechanical experience in later generations, weapons, armors, mechanical legions, etc., Created his rise in this life. However, his growing ambitions and troubles forced him to step out of his own world, and this also allowed him to slowly come into contact with secrets that he had never known in later generations...

The novel is set in a ten-story apartment building at 11 rue Simon Clobelier in the 17th arrondissement of Paris and tells the story of the people who live there. This apartment building was cut open vertically by the author, and the rooms, corridors, elevators, and basements were divided into a chess board with 10 squares horizontally and vertically. Except for the square in the lower left corner, the remaining 99 squares correspond to a chapter in the book. The author starts from the corridor on the fourth floor and describes the objects, characters, and stories in each grid in turn. The order of description follows the steps of the knight in chess. Repeat, the story ends in the room on the immediate left side of the fourth floor. The entire novel methodically depicts the all-encompassing lives of 1,468 characters according to a strict mathematical structure.

17 full-color Hopper paintings + 17 short stories by the master of fiction. Lawrence Block was a fan of Edward Hopper. Like the film director Hitchcock, who was also obsessed with Hopper's paintings, he was obsessed with the loneliness and loneliness that penetrated into the bones of Hopper's paintings. Bullock therefore invited 16 contemporary best-selling American novelists, together with himself, to write a short story for each of Hopper's 17 well-known paintings, and compiled a short story collection containing 17 stories.

The original novel of the movie "Ready Player One" directed by Spielberg is a science fiction classic known as the "Geek Bible". In 2045, the real world is ugly. There's only one place where Wade Watts comes to life: the Oasis. This is a virtual universe that you can fully immerse yourself in. Most of humanity spends its time here. The eccentric creator of the Oasis is dead. He left the world with a series of tricky puzzles, the clues to which are hidden in pop culture elements from decades ago. The music, movies and games of that era were the loves of his life. The first person to solve these mysteries will become the heir to his vast fortune - the one who rules the oasis. Wade solved the first mystery. In the blink of an eye, he became the target of all forces. In order to win the ultimate prize, these forces will do whatever it takes. Don't hesitate to commit murder. The game begins. The only way to survive is to become a winner. It has profoundly affected the outlook on virtual reality and even the entire technology industry in the United States. Palmer Luckey, the founder of the legendary VR company Oculus and a Forbes young entrepreneur in the United States, requires every employee to read this book. It is a famous work by the American pop culture genius Ernst Klein. It has a new translation and 243 color illustrations and text annotations.

The work of Matsumoto Seicho, an insurmountable master in the world of reasoning literature. Keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe, Shoji Shimada, and Natsuhiko Kyogoku are all loyal readers of Matsumoto Seicho. Seicho Matsumoto pioneered social reasoning and wrote about the weaknesses of human nature and the roots of evil. Matsumoto Seicho's works have been adapted into movies and TV series more than 500 times, and have had a profound impact on the entire Japanese literary and art world! We can see the truth clearly, but we cannot see the human heart clearly. Even ordinary people may have seeds of evil in their hearts. No matter how small the malice is, it still has huge destructive power. A pet that was brutally murdered, a carp that changed color for no reason, a victim who disappeared, a case that has not been solved for thirty years, and eyes that were closed - these five breathtaking cases contain unexpected motives and extremely complex human nature.

In 1909, when Yumeji Takehisa was 26 years old, he came to prominence with his debut work "Mumeji Painting Collection: Spring Scroll". Since then, he has successively published "Yumeji Painting Collection: Summer Scroll", "Yumeji Painting Collection: Autumn Scroll", "Yumeji Painting Collection: Winter Scroll", etc. This is Takehisa Yumeji's famous and representative work. Takehisa Yumeji's painting style deeply reflects reality and is self-contained, and his poems are also refined and full of charm. They deeply influenced the Chinese cartoon master Feng Zikai, and were deeply loved by great writers such as Lu Xun, Zhou Zuoren, and Zhu Ziqing. They also won the lasting love of modern readers. "Mume Er Painting Collection: Summer Scroll" is based on the first edition in April 1910 (the 43rd year of Meiji). It is translated and published according to the original cover and format size. This is the first time that "Yume Er Painting Collection: Summer Scroll" has been translated and published in China in the 105 years since its publication. "Summer Scroll" is another masterpiece of Takehisa Yumeji after "Spring Scroll" and includes Yumeji's early works.

This book is a collection of poems by Yumeji Takehisa, a famous Japanese poet in the Meiji and Taisho periods. It is in the same series as "Collection of Yumeji Paintings: Spring Scroll", "Collection of Yumeji Paintings: Summer Scroll", and "Collection of Yumeji Paintings: Autumn Scroll". The illustrations are drawn by Yumeji himself. The poems and paintings complement each other, and the artistic conception is far-reaching, thought-provoking, and full of humanistic sentiments.

In the first half of the 20th century, three famous American historians jointly wrote "World History", which discussed the past history of mankind from the perspective of civilization evolution. It became popular in the United States and has gone through revisions. Our country translated this book twice in 1946 and 1948. In 1975, another translation by Bing Xin, Wu Wenzao, Fei Xiaotong and others was published. This time we used the 1975 translation, replaced it with a large number of exquisite and interesting illustrations, and wrote rich and diverse illustrations to show the style of the original work. Although this book was written nearly a century ago, it is still useful and interesting to read today. It divides the long process from the emergence of human civilization to the end of World War II in 1945 into four stages - the beginning of civilization, classical civilization, Christian civilization, and modern civilization - to introduce it, focusing especially on the development path of Western civilization. The writing is brisk, the exposition is precise, and it often provides refreshing insights.

European civilization in the 27 years from 1789 to 1815 belonged to Napoleon's century. Napoleon was an unprecedented dictator, but paradoxically, he devoted his life to seeking order for France after the liberal riots. After his death, he once again became a son of the revolution, an enemy of absolutism and aristocracy, a symbol of the riots, and a moderate spokesman who constantly demanded freedom. Hegel believed that he was a world force with the meaning of transforming fragmentation into wholeness and chaos into profoundness. This zeitgeist is necessary to maintain order and end individualism, abuse of freedom and broken rule. From this perspective, Napoleon was a progressive force. Europe moved forward for half a century under his 15-year rule.

"Rousseau and the Revolution" ushered in a new era. Rousseau had an incredible influence in literature, education, philosophy, religion, moral law, social behavior, art and politics. Rousseau is the father of the Romantic movement. Mrs. De Stael once said of Rousseau: "He created nothing, but burned everything." Like most key events in history, 100 different factors converged into the French Revolution, and Rousseau was the direct ideological promoter of the French Revolution. The ideas of the modern world, the ideological systems of the modern world, and the way of thinking of the modern world... Still originate from that era and that region.

This book uses an integrated approach to describe all aspects of Italian life during the Renaissance. The term "Renaissance" in this book refers only to Italy. In essence, the Renaissance was an economic expansion achieved by a few smart people manipulating the majority of simple people. Renaissance culture was an aristocratic culture built on the backs of the poor. The politics of the Renaissance were commercial oligarchs and military dictatorships replacing the republic. Morally, it was a pagan rebellion that corrupted the moral standards of religious theory, indulged human instincts, and used the wealth of industry and commerce as they pleased. The Renaissance restored classical culture and ended the thousand-year dominance of Eastern spirituality in Europe. It also spread the seeds of enlightenment to France, England, Germany, Flanders and Spain. Conceptual, moral and artistic trends continued to flow northward from Italy for a century. Between 1500 and 1600, all Western European countries recognized her as the mother of the new scientific, artistic and humanistic civilization.

This book describes the early changes in faith in Europe, divided into three parts: "Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Civilizations", "Dark Ages and Crusades" and "Christian Civilization". It adopts an integrated historical research method to fully and objectively analyze and discuss the possible scope and opinions of the medieval civilization from 325 to 1300. Starting from the distant Byzantium and Islam, this book gives a general introduction to each of the four medieval civilizations or aspects of each era: Byzantium, Islam, Judaism and Western Europe, and gives as much analysis as possible of the confluence and excitement of these four cultures during the Crusades. Medieval times are a state and a period: in Western Europe we should end with Columbus; in Russia it continues to the time of Peter the Great (during 1725); in India it continues to our own time. This era left behind precious religious, economic, artistic and literary legacies.

This book describes the glorious but turbulent life of ancient Greece, the origin, growth, maturity and decline of Greek civilization, the subtle but not man-made ups and downs of its complex cultural rise and fall, and the changes in its basic factors. In Western culture, except for machinery, there is almost no modern thing that is not handed down from Greece. However, despite their repeated efforts, the Greeks failed to achieve integrity, unity and peace in their politics. They even fell into the chaos of civil war and class antagonism. They lost their land and destroyed the morale of the people. They finally surrendered to Eastern dictatorship, quietism and mysticism. In the end, they almost took the initiative to welcome the conquering Romans. Through the Romans, the dying ancient Greece passed its science, philosophy, literature, and art to Europeans, becoming the vivid cultural cornerstone of our modern world.

The full text is composed of dozens of long and short letters written by Qiao Ruosa to Daddy Long-Legs, thus showing how a girl who grew up in a long-term repressive environment has self-esteem, self-love, and self-improvement, and finally the process of her talent being recognized and getting love. This book is essentially a woman's personal growth history.

"Flowers in the Mirror" is a novel written by Li Ruzhen, a literati in the Qing Dynasty. The first half of the book describes the story of Tang Ao, Duo Jiugong and others traveling overseas by boat, including their experiences in the Daughter Country, the Junzi Country, the Wuchang Country and other countries. The second half tells the story of Wu Zetian's imperial examination to select talented girls, Tang Xiaoshan, who was entrusted by Baihua Fairy, and one hundred talented girls entrusted by other flower fairies who passed the exam and made a difference in the court. His magical and humorous creative techniques are based on classics, and he cleverly outlines a gorgeous color picture of the heavenly wheel.

Through technology, humans try to regulate disorder and find certainty in an uncertain world; and through human nature, we are qualified to re-examine technology and define ourselves. The book "Killing Algorithms" collects 12 of Liu Yukun's recent science fiction masterpieces, which include conflict and tolerance; regret and hope; dumb black humor and touching self-sacrifice. It fully demonstrates Liu Yukun's profound thinking on the relationship between technology and human nature, which is exquisite and far-reaching. Among them, "Sorrow of Things" won the 2013 "Hugo Award".

"The Chronicles of Narnia" is a series of seven magical stories created by Lewis between 1951 and 1956, including "The Sorcerer's Nephew", "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "The Talking Horse and the Boy", "Prince Caspian", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "The Silver Chair" and "The Last Battle". The "Kingdom of Narnia" in the story is a mysterious and fantasy world. In these stories, the young protagonists enter the fantasy world of Narnia with a magic ring or through various magical methods such as a wardrobe door. They save the people of Narnia through heroic adventures and a battle of wits with the tyrant witch.

"The Chronicles of Narnia" is a series of seven magical stories created by Lewis between 1951 and 1956, including "The Sorcerer's Nephew", "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", "The Talking Horse and the Boy", "Prince Caspian", "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader", "The Silver Chair" and "The Last Battle". The "Kingdom of Narnia" in the story is a mysterious and fantasy world. In these stories, the young protagonists enter the fantasy world of Narnia with a magic ring or through various magical methods such as a wardrobe door. They save the people of Narnia through heroic adventures and a battle of wits with the tyrant witch.

"Flowers in the Mirror" is a long fantasy novel written by Li Ruzhen in the Qing Dynasty. Wu Zetian ordered all the flowers to bloom because she was drunk. Unfortunately, the Baihua Fairy was traveling, and the flower gods had no way to ask for instructions, so they had to bloom together. Therefore, it violated the rules of heaven, and the Baihua Fairy was demoted to earth and became Tang Ao's daughter Tang Xiaoshan. Later, Tang Ao was framed and executed by a traitor. After gaining fame, he was disheartened and traveled overseas by boat with Duo Jiugong and others, passing through more than 30 strange countries such as the Daughter's Kingdom, the Junzi's Kingdom, and the Wuchang Kingdom. He saw many strange people and strange things, got to know the reincarnation of the Twelve Flower Fairies, and continuously took fairy grass to gain supernatural powers. Tang Ao saw through the world and entered Xiao Penglai to become an immortal. Wu Zetian selected talented girls in the imperial examination. Tang Xiaoshan followed his father's wish and reincarnated twelve flower fairies, among which one hundred talented girls passed the examination. They all showed their talents in playing music, chess, calligraphy, painting, medicine, divination and arithmetic.

The long wait is finally over, and the carnival of Cthulhu is here again! The second volume of "The Cthulhu Mythos" that is a must-have for believers, including "At the Mountains of Madness", "Innsmouth", "Rat in the Wall" and "The Shadow Beyond Time"! The truth in the unspeakable dark abyss challenges your Sanity. The first choice for entry, a must-have for collection

An epic masterpiece of Chinese classical vernacular novels comparable to "Dream of Red Mansions". It is an encyclopedic novel that thoroughly describes ancient Chinese officialdom. It has been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and other languages, and has spread at home and abroad. An encyclopedia-style novel that thoroughly describes the officialdom of ancient China: the arrogant Confucian scholar who drinks from a gold cup, the rebellious talented woman who escapes from marriage alone, the famous gay friend who loves masculinity, the true Confucian sage who lives in the mountains and forests, the crying boy who clings to scientific examinations, the fake poet who cheats and cheats, the ethical fanatic who persuades women to sacrifice their husbands, the simple and progressive filial son turns into a greedy and hypocritical despicable person...

2017 new unabridged complete version! The elegant translation by Dong Jiping, a Nobel Prize-winning translator and poet who has gained a lot of reputation, perfectly presents the sad beauty of the original work! For the first time in China, a complete set of illustrations by Henry P. Raleigh, the benchmark painter of the Jazz Age, is included! "The Great Gatsby" is a well-known and immortal classic in the history of American literature. It has been selected as one of the "Books that Shaped America" ​​by the U. S. National Library and a standard textbook for American high schools and colleges. It has been ranked first in the classic literature category on Amazon in the United States for 10 consecutive years, and has swept the world's most authoritative lists such as Time Magazine, The New York Times, and The Guardian. In the top social circles of New York, USA, a mysterious rich man named Gatsby suddenly broke into the world. He often held lavish parties at his home. One day, Gatsby's hidden secret was discovered by his neighbor: when he was a poor boy, he fell in love with the rich girl Daisy, and they remained in love for life. For the sake of his beloved Daisy, he did whatever it took to become a rich man, but the former goddess had already married into a wealthy family. Gatsby, who was crazy about love, made a series of amazing moves and rekindled his old relationship with Daisy as he wished. However, what awaited him was self-destruction and the cruel truth of human nature...

A horror classic that made the entire United States scream! "The Devil Behind You" swept three major awards in the world of horror literature: the Bram Stoker Award (the highest award for horror novels since 1987), the British Fantasy Award (horror novel), and the Locus Award (horror novel). To kill the devil, first kill the fear in your heart. Is everything you do really out of your own will? Maybe there are some people like this around you: they are critical of you and point fingers; they may even be moody, argue with you, and impose their will on you. Will you listen to them? The devil lives among us, and this is an epic about them.

This book takes the lives of four pirates as the main axis and vividly reproduces the historical scenes known as the Golden Decade of Piracy (1715-1725); the author attempts to reconstruct the image of pirates in the eyes of civilians in the colonies and its relationship with the American Revolution.

In the modern history of China, Hunan produced more reformers, military officers, and revolutionaries than any other province in China. However, historical research rarely conducts coherent discussions on Hunan. This book is different from the common view that China's modernization was inspired by the capital and treaty ports inland. Instead, it focuses on Hunan and believes that Hunan's internal ideological reforms and discussions have affected the direction of China's modern history.