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There is an island, a secret island unknown to outsiders. There is a group of strange people on the island, as well as a talking scarecrow who knows the future. A prophecy has been circulating on the island for hundreds of years: the island lacks something, and outsiders will bring it. The "outsiders" finally arrived, and the islanders were full of expectations, but what they were waiting for was violence and killing... And the god-like scarecrow also fell bizarrely. Who can come to save this island? Does it really need redemption?

"Shuncho" is the most famous novella by Japanese aesthetic master Junichiro Tanizaki. Chunqin, the daughter of an Osaka medicine merchant, was blind since she was a child. She is beautiful, intelligent, and extremely talented, and she shows amazing talent in music. Sasuke, a young man who came to her house as an apprentice, admired her. While serving her wholeheartedly, he also secretly learned shamisen, and the two became half master-servant, half master-student relationship. After establishing his own business, Chunqin was disfigured due to the jealousy of others, and Sasuke stabbed himself in the eyes. The two of them went deep into the unknown world of the two. "Yoshino Kudzu" is a novella based on the local historical legend of Yoshino. It is both fictional and factual, and is very interesting. "I" was preparing to write a historical novel set in Yoshino, and came to Yoshino to collect information, but it led to "my" friend Tsumura's longing for the past of his mother who died young, and a beautiful marriage was formed.

[Suspense introduction]: His father was buried with no bones, and his mother was buried with no bones. A sudden fire broke out in the house, and he was inexplicably poisoned. Two sets of bones, old house and new house. Twenty years have passed. Zhengrong returned in search of the truth, but ended up marrying three times in one year and losing three lives. Is it a coincidence? An accident? The fate is hard and unknown, and the sky is lonely. Is it the will of God or the conspiracy of the human heart? Four carved jade tablets, three unrelated people. A well-paid high-ranking official, an eminent monk, and an orphaned girl with amnesia. What is the connection between them? A complicated network of relationships and a case within a case full of doubts. Irrelevant clues weave a clueless truth. Who is the mastermind behind everything? [Introduction to the Detective]: A pair of bare hands peels off the cocoons, reveals the truth, and avenges the grievances of the deceased. A pair of ghost eyes, catching wind and shadows, talking about the dead, and doing things about the living. Step over the corpses, step over the blood, and uncover the many mysteries. When all the cover-ups collapse, the prosperity comes to an end, and the truth comes to light. Truth, There has only ever been one... [Leader Introduction]: After his father died and his mother died, he became an orphan. He is a hereditary man, but he is surrounded by doubts. Weird events happen frequently. What is the intention of the person behind it? Carrying the blood feud between his parents and lying dormant for twenty years, he, the king, returned, stirred up the storm and caused a bloody storm in the court, just to find out who the murderer was. Memory fragments are like a flood, and nightmares have been haunting them for fifteen years. What are the lost memories? She doesn't know, she keeps searching, and finally opens the dusty memory, but everything can never go back to its original appearance. After uncovering the truth, where should she go? "If I had it to do over again, I would never embark on this road again," she said. Introduction to Rhythm Poetry: One step is wrong, every step is wrong, every step is losing ground. Conspiracy and conspiracy, bloody and violent Mary Sue Family love, best friend love, friendship, brotherhood love Funny than the heroine who plays the leading role, arrogant and cold-blooded woman [Introduction to couplets]: First couplet: Teamwork is full of passion, who is the heroine? Second line: Who is the winner in this vicious and vicious drama? Hengpi: Please watch the main show [Category supplement]: This article takes place in the context of the Li Zhi period of the Tang Dynasty when the heroine Wu is the queen. The suspense is a little fresh and the protagonist is pure and one-on-one. It is not funny or gay. It is a very serious conclusion. (Serious face) Note The author of this article knows nothing about history. After studying the history of the Tang Dynasty for three months, his mind is still a mess. This article is purely fabricated, just for the sake of Bojun's smile. Don't test, don't test! !

Just weeks after marrying Rosaleen, a beautiful young widow, Gordon-Claude died in an air raid in London. His huge family property naturally fell into the hands of his young wife. On the other hand, although the Claude family members all have decent jobs on the surface, they actually depend on Gordon for their lives. His sudden death and the fact that the inheritance was taken by Rosalind suddenly made the conflict acute. At this time, a mysterious man who called himself Enoch Arden came to the village. He blackmailed Rosaleen and her brother David on the grounds that Rosaleen's ex-husband Underhay was actually still alive. Unexpectedly, he was murdered in the hotel room. The witness, Major Porter, actually identified the deceased in court as Andhay himself, who had been dead for many years...

Short in stature, strong in physique, stubborn and indifferent to physical pain, this is the unknown agent of the mainland detective agency. He is the great hero in the story, who has traveled far and wide with his passion for his work. He single-handedly takes on a group of gangsters; he goes to Eastern Europe to rescue a "king" in a coup; he upholds justice in the hellish Arizona desert; he confronts various crooks who rob banks. He has no name, only a hard skin, and a noble soul...

A beautiful woman came to ask Sam Spade to track the man who had eloped with her sister. However, the partner Sam sent died in a dark alley that night, and the person being followed also died a few hours later. Sam soon discovered that things were very different from the woman's story. Wrapped up in many lies, the core of the incident turned out to be a medieval royal tribute, the "Maltese Eagle." A group of criminals started a deceitful fight around it. They took turns engaging in secret robberies, serial deceptions, financial bribes and honey traps. How will Sam recognize their true identity? The book comes with a beautiful bookmark and a value-for-money full-color "Incomplete Manual of the Maltese Falcon" to provide you with a comprehensive analysis of Hammett and his Maltese Falcon!

After accidentally breaking his rival's treasure, Cen Mu had to retrieve the pieces.

Bernie disappeared for a while. Oh no, it should be said that he had reformed. After some hard work, he finally managed to make the second-hand bookstore barely break even. He thought his life would be so comfortable, but he also encountered a problem that most people have trouble with - soaring prices. The new landlord issued a notice that the rent would be increased, and it would be more than ten times the original price. The repentant thief seemed to have only one option left. On the first night he returned to his old business, Bernie encountered a corpse...

"Melancholy in Paris" contains both incisive criticism and satire of the dirty and ugly social reality and secular habits, as well as a fascinating depiction of beauty and the heart's longing for it. The book aroused great criticism from critics at the time, the collection of poems was banned, and Baudelaire even faced a lawsuit. But Hugo, who was in exile, praised the collection of poems, saying that it was like a "dazzling star" and brought "a new tremor" to the French poetry world.

In the Bellona Club, the ninety-year-old General Fendiman was lying in the armchair and was already dead. People were coming and going around him, and no one knew when he died. At the same time, news came of the death of his sister, Lady Dormer. She left a strange will: she passed away before her brother, and gave a huge inheritance to her brother; her brother died before her, and the inheritance was transferred to a distant relative, Miss Dolan. The time of death becomes the focus. What shocking secrets are hidden behind seemingly normal deaths?

When reading Nishizawa, how can you miss Jiang Qianxiao! Content introduction: There is a reason for everything, such as putting a person to death. What happens next? There is something more cruel, more extreme, and heinous. Even if it is very troublesome, there are still many people who have to do it. Just two words, but I cannot say it clearly. New York has eight million people, eight million stories, eight million ways to die... And maybe eight million reasons to do that? ! But this book was not written by Bullock. The super-powerful imagination of the famous reasoning master Yasuhiko Nishizawa perfectly explains the high crime cost of "disintegration" and why the murderers have to pay it again and again.

In the Bellona Club, the ninety-year-old General Fendiman was lying in the armchair and was already dead. People were coming and going around him, and no one knew when he died. At the same time, news came of the death of his sister, Lady Dormer. She left a strange will: she passed away before her brother, and gave a huge inheritance to her brother; her brother died before her, and the inheritance was transferred to a distant relative, Miss Dolan. The time of death becomes the focus. What shocking secrets are hidden behind seemingly normal deaths?

Over 400 years after its publication, "Montaigne's Essays" has been translated into dozens of languages ​​and has readers all over the world. Regardless of age, educational background, or cultural differences, almost every reader can gain spiritual resonance from it. Its lasting vitality not only comes from Montaigne's simple language, but also from his thinking and care for life, life and human nature. It can be said that although Montaigne lived in the 16th century, he was a "contemporary" in the 21st century.

Select 16 Tagore paintings and enjoy a double feast of poetry appreciation and painting. Asia's first Nobel Prize winner in literature. Every flower, every tree, every grass, every dust, in his writings are all beautiful words and lively thoughts, "as if looking into the eyes of the Creator." Tagore shows us such a culture, a culture that reaches perfection in the vast tranquility and soul-cleansing forests of India, a culture whose main purpose is to obtain peace of soul by continuously increasing the harmony with the natural body of life.

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"Vanity Fair" is the famous work of the 19th-century British novelist Thackeray. It is also the most time-tested masterpiece among his life's works. It is the most famous satirical critical realist novel in the UK. Yang Bi's translation of "Vanity Fair" has a deep understanding of the original work and is very meticulous. He carefully considers every word and sentence and strives to be similar in spirit. Her translations often break the shackles of grammar, get rid of the shackles of word order, overturn the structure of the original work, stick to the essence of the original work, boldly "re-create", and reach a higher realm of literary translation: loyalty but not mud, liveliness but not abuse.

In the spring of 2013, Yang Jiang, who was over 100 years old, decided to proofread Vanity Fair, which was translated by his younger sister Yang Bi under the guidance of Qian Zhongshu, from the beginning. I found Thackeray's original work to revise it, add text and sentences, and add some complexity. "On August 12, 2014, I completed the revision. I was very happy and read it carefully from beginning to end. I laughed and said to my friend: 'This translation can really be called a "teacher-student-sister work" in collaboration between Yang Bi and Yang Jiang!'"

The book "Middlemarch" has two main lines. One is the disastrous marriage and disillusionment of the idealistic girl Dorothea, and the other is the tragic marriage and career failure of the young doctor Lydgate. The author uses techniques such as contrast, symmetry, parallelism and repetition to skillfully interweave these two main lines and write in many characters, successfully expressing the disillusionment theme of "society defeats people".

At the end of World War I, young Lori Lee settled with her family in the picturesque countryside of the Cotswolds, England. In his thirties, he used poetically beautiful and warm words to relive the childhood memories of his hometown and composed an enduring British pastoral song. The golden flame, the boy's poem, Rosie's smile, the beautiful village untouched by electrification, the lost collective memory of a generation...

Literary agent Anthea Landau wants to auction off a famous writer's letters, leaving the reclusive writer furious but unable to do anything about it. Moreover, the writer wrote a novel that influenced Bernie's life. What's more, this commission was proposed by a beautiful and mysterious girl. In this way, even though there was no material reward, Bernie took action again for his ideals. However, what greeted him was only corpses, but the letter disappeared...

Bernie didn't feel that his actions were moral, he just felt that it was unfair to go to jail even though he had not committed a crime. He went to appraise a rich man's book collection and left countless fingerprints. Bernie finds himself wanted by the police when his client dies at home that night. At the same time, Caroline's cat was kidnapped, and the kidnapper demanded a ransom of $250,000. So Bernie thought of the Mondrian he saw in his client's home...

A bookseller and a true New Yorker, Bernie rarely left Manhattan. But this time he arranged a romantic weekend trip for himself and his lover Lettice, but Lettice told him that she was getting married... Bernie had no plans to get married for the time being, so he brought his best friend Caroline to the Gatford Hotel, not to mention there was a rare book that Bernie had coveted for a long time on the bookshelf there. Uh... Do you still remember that Bernie is a thief? However, things are always so unsatisfactory. When Bernie enters the library, he finds a body lying on the ground...

No longer agile? Are you getting timid? Luo Dengbao, who has changed his job in middle age, finally bids farewell to dark night adventures and becomes a second-hand bookstore owner. It's just that... A rare book that is said to be unique in the world - a collection of anti-Semitic poems written by Kipling and presented to famous figures, is causing collectors from all walks of life to compete for it. If you can... You have to pay the price just for your heartbeat. In the blink of an eye, he had inexplicably transformed from a kind and good citizen to a dangerous fugitive wanted by the police...

At the beginning of the story, four detectives appear together (the four famous detectives - this is a subversion in itself) - they are all fans of reasoning and believers of Sherlock Holmes - one of the most prominent features is that they are all incompetent people! In the eyes of these four gentlemen, they just lacked an opportunity. If a corpse appeared in front of them, any one of them would do better than Holmes. Opportunities are always for those who are prepared. One day, a body fell from the railway bridge next to the golf course, and the four Holmes rushed to the scene...

Bernie Rodenbarr is a thief who has been in prison twice. This time he was entrusted to steal a blue box in a luxury apartment. Things are never that simple... The blue box was not stolen, but there was a body lying in the bedroom. Bernie has since become a wanted criminal. He sneaks into a friend's empty fan and hides, trying to prove his innocence with the help of a beautiful neighbor. Follow Rodenbarr through his crazy criminal career and you will discover that this thief will steal your heart...

Brashear, who had been wrongfully imprisoned and had just regained his freedom, met Louise, a beautiful woman who escaped from her home late at night, and learned that she was a woman with a complicated past who was criticized by the locals and was trying to escape from a man she did not love. Her drunken boyfriend and a companion chased her. During the fight, the companion fell and injured his head, and the two had to leave. Immediately came the news that the injured man was dying, and the police launched a hunt for Brashear. His only hope of avoiding being imprisoned again is for the injured in the hospital bed to wake up. However, it seems that some people don't want this to happen... This book also includes three short stories from the Sam Spade series: "Too Many People Have Lived", "They Can Only Hang You Once" and "A Man Named Spade".

"The World Is Invincible" is the eighth in the "Heroes Who Are the Heroes" series by martial arts novelist Wen Ruian. The "Speaking of Heroes·Who Are Heroes" series has "the suffocation of gangster novels, the love and hatred of chivalrous novels, and the deceitfulness of spy novels." In addition, there are other features that millions of fans of fandom and chivalrous novels should not miss.

When David Kepsh was young, he pursued absolute personal freedom, followed the call of desire, and indulged himself. This kind of life made him physically and mentally exhausted. And when he got the chance to return to the right path of life, he hesitated, fearing that his freedom would be imprisoned by marriage. Later, he became a professor of comparative literature. While he was preparing to open a course to teach desire in European novels, he was thinking about life: he considered himself to be nothing more than a "Professor of Desire", stumbling between the pursuit of academic rationality and the pursuit of carnal satisfaction... "Professor of Desire" was published after "Breasts", but it is the preface of "Breasts". It traces the first half of David Kepsh's life, shows his experience and inner struggle before his "transformation", and reveals how he floated up and down in the sea of ​​desire, and finally became a victim.

A wealthy businessman was injured to death by a heavy object in a car. The murder weapon turned out to be a typewriter. Nine important clues were discovered at the scene, but none of them led to the right direction. A detective who was conducting a routine investigation on Turkey Street met an amiable old couple and was warmly invited into their home for tea. Unexpectedly, he stepped into a trap of intrigue and cannibalism. A colonel who swore revenge took a black manservant who was good at witchcraft to settle near the enemy's house and played various scams. Is he pretending to be a ghost, or does he really believe that the power of ghosts and gods will avenge him? In the whirlpool of money, beauties, gangsters, and ghosts, this middle-aged, fat, and nameless detective from a mainland detective agency calmly dealt with the situation and survived every desperate situation.

"The Aspen Manuscripts" is a typical novel about cultural conflict and love tragedy written by James, based on the story of the British romantic legendary poet Byron. The novel tells the story of "I" going to Venice in order to obtain the manuscripts of the great poet Aspen, and deliberately getting close to Aspen's legendary mistress. For this batch of precious manuscripts, "I" and the two Miss Bordello patiently dealt with each other, retreating in order to advance, and making progress step by step. It can be said that all the mechanisms were exhausted. Finally, just when these manuscripts were within reach, "I" got cold feet. What is the price that makes "I" return with regret? "Pleasure Corner" is a novel with a magical color. The protagonist is a young man who has lived in Europe for a long time. Because his "Pleasure Corner", that is, his old house, is facing demolition, he returns to the United States to deal with related matters. Back in the old house, he imagined what kind of person he would have become if he had stayed in the United States instead of going to Europe. This story has Henry James's own review, which reflects his profound thinking about the new and old continents. Now it seems that it is quite universal and thought-provoking.

In a future world, the glass bead game has become a symbol system evolved from music and mathematics, and is all human knowledge and spiritual wealth. Due to the complicated politics and wars, human civilization is facing the threat of destruction. In order to save and promote this spiritual culture of mankind, a certain religious group is making unremitting efforts. Knecht was an orphan who was raised by this religious group. He was talented and intelligent. With his outstanding talents and superior organizational skills, he continued to rise in this elite group until he reached the top of the group and became the master of the glass bead game. But as he grew older, he gradually became dissatisfied with this isolated spiritual kingdom and felt that it was impossible to contribute to the people in this kind of ivory tower. So he came to the real world and tried to use education to improve the entire world. However, before his career was completed, he unfortunately drowned while swimming. This book is the crystallization of the spiritual experience of the elderly Hesse looking back on his life. The work was written from 1931 to 1934, almost simultaneously with Hitler's rise to power and his demise.

This book is a documentary work by Philip Roth, a leading figure in contemporary American literature. It won the "National Book Critics Award" in 1992 and has become a contemporary classic of non-fiction works. In this book, what shocks the reader's heart is the large number of psychological monologues and daily details of Philip Roth in the process of taking care of his father, as well as the memory fragments of this ordinary Jewish family life that constantly flash up, sometimes humorous, sometimes melancholy, sometimes profound... The focus of this book is no longer the vast society or grand propositions, but Roth's recently deceased father, an ordinary, humble old Jewish man. In the days before his death, his life was like a river soaked in trivial past events, flowing half-dark before the eyes of him and his son, a writer. The relationship between father and son has never been so close yet strange, both flesh-and-blood and yet estranged. When the life of a loved one enters the countdown, all the thinking and torture, all the fear and sadness, make people breathless - even if this person is Philip Roth, who is famous for his coldness. The writer Ross and his son Ross kept exchanging between the lines of "Legacy". Passion and reason sometimes fought fiercely and sometimes made peace, trying to restore the truth of life. The truth of life is enough to put any words to shame, and it is enough to conquer the most demanding book reviewers in the United States.

Graham Greene is a master British novelist. He is extremely pessimistic and world-weary, but he is most concerned about the struggle and redemption of the soul; "evil" is everywhere in his works, violence, crime, betrayal, and fall are everywhere, but the most thrilling thing is the inner moral and spiritual struggle of the individual; the characters in his works are despicable and desperate At the top, the brilliance of humanity can bloom in the mud; he can be called the most serious, pessimistic and religious writer of the 20th century. He is also a master of storytelling. He is one of the most star-studded writers in the entire Western world in the 20th century and one of the most read novelists. Greene divides his works into two categories: "serious novels" and "entertainment novels". "A Case of Self-Infected Virus" is one of the most famous "serious novels". It is set in the Congo colony and the leprosy hospital, showing the mental journey of a European hermit who is extremely spiritually empty and desperate and gradually moves towards new life, focusing on exploring the possibility of spiritual redemption.

"The Ghost Writer" is the first in a series of literary adventures by Nathan Zuckerman. The 23-year-old protagonist Nathan Zuckerman has just published a batch of short stories and received an invitation from his most admired writer E. I. Lonoff to visit him at his home in the Berkshire Mountains. There, Nathan met the Lonovs and a female student they adopted, Amy Bellette. He was immediately attracted by Amy's unique charm. But what Nathan didn't expect was that in the process of getting along with his idol, the other person's wife Hope suddenly lost control. During the subsequent stay, Nathan discovered the affair between Lonov and Amy, and was even more shocked by Amy's bizarre experience as the original author of "The Diary of Anne Frank." At the same time, Nathan's past is also slowly unfolded from his own memories, about his growing up experience, and how he had a falling out with his family because of writing novels about Jewish family relatives... The novel uses first-person narrative, intertwined with flashbacks, interludes and other techniques, and is a masterpiece in American literature.

The death of a friend introduces Dennis Barlow - Englishman, poet, pet mortician - to a world he has longed for: Whispering Woods Cemetery. Behind the golden cemetery gate is a Hollywood-style man-made paradise. American death is sold here like a vacation package. It was here that Dennis met his "great love": Amy, the funeral beautician who whispered in the forest, an American girl with an empty mind and poor knowledge, but spiritually yearning for beauty and poetry. The cunning British man cleverly exploited both weaknesses at the same time, preparing to capture the innocent American girl in one fell swoop. At the same time, an American man - the chief embalmer of Whispering in the Woods - is also expressing his love for Amy in his very unique (or weird) way, and is ready to take action. But the ending is beyond everyone's expectation... Comedy and tragedy, banter and heaviness, idealism and nihility are perfectly combined in this work, which can be called the ultimate in black humor. However, whether it is laughter or tears, they are two sides of the same world - a world of consumerism that reduces art and ideas to commodities. In this system where everything is clearly priced, reputation, love and death are extremely expensive.

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David Kepsh is a university literature professor. As an intellectual, he longs for reason and moderation, but he is also energetic and often gets into trouble when faced with temptations. In the past two years, under the attack of reason and temptation, his desire has become stronger day by day. While the psychological balance was gradually broken, strange physiological changes also followed. One early morning in February, Kepusch discovered that she had turned into a female breast weighing 155 pounds... "Breast" uses a first-person perspective to record the protagonist's mental journey before and after the "deformation", as well as other people's reactions to this "deformation", leaving readers with infinite space to think about human alienation and loss of identity.

Evelyn Waugh is known as the best British satirical novelist of the 20th century and is recognized as one of the most outstanding stylists of the 20th century. "Evil Flesh" is Waugh's first successful work and one of his most important masterpieces. After the First World War, a new generation of young people emerged in the British upper class. Underneath the surface glamor was darkness and fragility. They were the "coquettish teenagers" who represented the glitz and despair of the 1920s. They are both naive and worldly, and they tirelessly devote their restless minds and evil bodies to capricious misdeeds, seeking endless sensory stimulation and desire satisfaction like drinking poison to quench their thirst, but their desires are far from being filled. "Evil Flesh" is a classic masterpiece that depicts a group of "voluptuous teenagers" of this generation and deeply taps into the spirit of this era. Therefore, "it belongs to that category of novel treasures that seem to sum up and define an era, just like "The Great Gatsby."

"Under Western Eyes" is regarded in British and American academic circles as a companion piece to Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment". The protagonist Razumov is a top student at St. Petersburg University and hates revolution. His classmate Holding came to his residence to hide after assassinating government officials. However, he was afraid of being implicated and reported Holding, causing the latter to be executed by the government. But Razumov did not return to the study life he had hoped for because of his informant. Instead, he was coerced by government intelligence agencies and sent to Geneva, Switzerland, to spy on exiled Russian revolutionaries. In Geneva, Razumov happened to meet Holding's mother and sister. When Holding's sister confided her love to him, Razumov was tortured by his conscience and told the truth. He was eventually retaliated by the revolutionaries, beaten to deafness, and ended up spending the rest of his life in a remote village in Russia with a maid.

"The Golden Rose" is a collection of beautiful essays that summarizes the author's own creative experience, studies the creative activities of many literary masters in Russia and the world, and discusses the process, methods and purposes of literary creation. The literary master used his unique writing style to depict the beautiful human emotions and the picturesque scenery of nature in a majestic and delicate manner, and elaborated on the writer's mission, the purpose and methods of literary creation, and greatly inspired every literature lover, literary creator and literary critic who read "The Golden Rose". This book uses novel and beautiful writing to create vivid and moving images, which have irresistible and powerful appeal, leaving an indelible impression on people and inspiring people's beautiful feelings of fraternity. All famous modern and contemporary Chinese writers who have read "The Golden Rose" praise it as a rare and good book, and affirm that the book played an important role in their own literary creation. I believe this book will still teach readers a lot today.

The successful Nathan Zuckerman came to Prague in the mid-1970s. Here he discovered a completely different literary predicament and experienced a series of fantastic and poignant adventures. "Prague Carnival" presents Zuckerman's sojourn life with the exiled artists in the form of a diary, and tells the struggle of these morally bankrupt artists in a totalitarian society: while they indulge themselves in carnival and exile, they are also using their bodies to resist the constraints of their spirits. Philip Roth uses this book to explore the difficult fate and living conditions of intellectuals in harsh political situations, and his writing reveals profound concern and sympathy.

After burying his father, Nathan Zuckerman, who was in his late teens, suddenly suffered from an undiagnosable pain that spread from his shoulders and neck to his torso, and even his mind was occupied by this pain. No doctor knew where his ailment came from. He had to rely on painkillers to survive, could not continue writing, and even his movements were hampered by pain. Bored, he began to let his mind wander, recalling his failed marriage and family relationships. Outbursts of extreme nostalgia and ambition to conquer his illness, Zuckerman determined to return to his alma mater, the University of Chicago, where he would study medicine... Rashness and meticulousness, lyricism and irony blended together, admonitions and confessions running through it, with a knowing, benevolent authority. Featuring some of the funniest and most brutal scenes in Philip Roth's novels, this is a grand comedy about illness.

Hesse's creative career lasted for 70 years, and his works cover a wide range. In addition to novels such as "Under the Wheel", "Steppenwolf", "Narziss and Goldmund", and "The Glass Bead Game", Hesse has never stopped writing short and medium stories. Hesse is good at using symbolic artistic techniques to reflect the deep sting caused by the outside world to the human soul from the spiritual and psychological aspects, so that the inner meaning of the work can be condensed and sublimated. The 26 short stories and short stories collected in this book are all the best of Hesse's works. They reflect the author's characteristics and styles in different creative periods in the early, middle and late periods. They are of great help and inspiration for us to fully understand Hesse and his creative thoughts and art.

Three young girls share an apartment in London. The first is a calm and capable secretary; the second is an artist; and the third girl interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast, confesses that she is a murderer, and then quickly disappears. Poirot gradually learns about the rumors surrounding this mysterious third girl, her family, and her mysterious disappearance. But whether the great detective finds her guilty, innocent, or insane, he needs solid evidence...

On November 20, 1926, a certain nerdy young man who was hospitalized in Ward No. 7 Of the Psychiatric Department of Kyushu Imperial University suddenly regained consciousness to the rhythm of the "tick-tick-tick" of the wall clock in the ward. However, he could not recall his own name or experience. However, a girl's distressed cry came from the adjacent ward, "Brother, brother - it's me - I am my brother's fiancée, do you remember?" It is said that Professor Wakabayashi, a patient at the Kyushu Imperial University Mental Hospital, brought the nerdy young man to the specimen room of the Madman Hospital in order to let the nerdy young man recall his past. There, two pieces of information were found, one was the diary of a madman of "Illusion", and the other was the relics of Dr. Masaki who committed suicide a month ago.

Shiina, a freshman, moved into an apartment alone while humming Bob Dylan songs. When she met her handsome neighbor Kawasaki for the first time, she was invited to rob a bookstore together late at night! Going to bookstores for a copy of "Guangci Yuan"? Was there any mistake? ! Shiina knew that this matter was absurd, but was inexplicably attracted to this absurdity and participated in it in a daze. This was not the only ridiculous thing that Kawasaki mentioned. The simple Shiina was a little overwhelmed. He wanted to know the truth of many things. Shiina followed, questioned, and found relevant people to inquire. In the end, he found that all the answers had already appeared in front of him. As Bob Dylan once sang, Blowing in The Wind.

In the middle and upper class society of New York in the mid-19th century, the fierce conflict between marriage and money showed the confrontation between ignorance and corruption. "Washington Square" uses a twists and turns of a touching love story as its theme, and unfolds a struggle between two values ​​around love and money. The heroine Catherine is a wealthy lady who falls in love with the charming property hunter Townsend. However, her father is cunning and firmly opposes their marriage. In the torment of love and father's fate, Catherine suffered from her father's ruthlessness, and finally was shamelessly betrayed by her fiancé, leaving her to live a lonely life in an apartment on the corner of Washington Square.

The protagonist of the novel, Harrell, is an upright writer. He despises the modern social lifestyle and often stays behind closed doors. The suffocating air makes him fall into a schizophrenic state. One day, he accidentally read a short book "Review of Steppenwolf", and suddenly woke up from the dream, thinking that he was a Steppenwolf with both "human nature" and "wolf nature". Later, he was invited to a party and found that the attendees all had narrow nationalist views, and his anti-war remarks were reprimanded, making him feel even more lonely. When he returned home, he met the bartender Hermina and gained sensual joy. After Hermina introduced him, he met the musician Pablo and the girl Maria. He forgot all his worries and worries in the music and sensual enjoyment. But when he saw Hermina getting close to Pablo, he became "wolfish" and killed Hermina out of jealousy. The novel is rich in fantasy color and profound symbolic meaning, and is considered to have a "surrealist" style; Thomas Mann called it "German Ulysses".

In "Life Was Like This", Green recalls his student days and Oxford years, how he encountered psychoanalysis and Russian roulette in adolescence, his marriage and conversion to Catholicism, and how he hurriedly resigned from The Times after the publication of his first novel to become a professional writer. "Writing 'Life Was Like This'... is essentially a form of psychoanalysis. I have traveled a long distance through time, and I am one of the characters I write about."