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"Eugénie Grandet" is a novel by the famous French writer Balzac. It tells the story of the innocent and beautiful Eugenie, the only daughter of the miserly and shrewd millionaire Grandet. She fell in love with her bankrupt cousin. For his sake, she did not hesitate to anger her money-loving father and spent all her private savings to help him make his way into the world. At this point, the relationship between father and daughter broke down, and the timid and virtuous mother was so frightened that she fell ill. The girl who lost her parents and her youth in the bitter expectation ended up with a heartless man who returned rich.

This is the sequel to the author's famous work "An Angel Looks Hometown", which records the life experience of Eugene Gant from the age of 20 to 25. The novel begins with Eugene leaving his hometown to study at Harvard. It describes his living conditions at Harvard, what he saw when he returned home for a funeral, his arrest and imprisonment, his experience of teaching in New York, his travels in Europe, and his meeting Esta when he returned home by boat. By narrating the growth process of a young man from a remote town in the southern United States, the author attempts to reveal his inner confusion and express his exploration of the meaning of life and his pursuit of happiness and truth.

Manchu youth Ning Boyong studied in Japan for six years. After returning to China, he encountered the Revolution of 1911. He heard that his old classmate was running Dahua Daily outside Qianmen, so he went to find a job and became a reporter. After moving from the suburbs of Beijing to the city, Ning Boyong saw an increasingly changing Beijing. He met Bangzi Xiaohuadan White Peony at Longquan Temple, and organized a group with Peishang Yimin and others to celebrate the white peony. From then on, White Peony gradually became popular, and was later monopolized by Wei Er Ye, who disliked Ning Boyong and others. Ning Boyong met the prostitute Xiuqing again. Xiuqing looked coldly on high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen, but treated Ning Boyong differently, and the two gradually fell in love. Xiuqing unfortunately fell ill and entrusted her mother and younger brother to Ning Boyong before she died...

Can you imagine a beautiful and talented girl traveling across the vast desert on a wheel? In order to find Prince Charming and the ideal in life, she, Jian Lun, began her zero-degree search. Will searching starting from zero return to zero? Chunyi, the author who was born in the Western Gobi, uses the desert wind and poetic language to lead us into the maze of the plot, giving us a reading surprise!

This book contains two novels by Mr. Lao She, namely "Under the Red Flag" (unfinished) and "Divorce". "Under the Red Flag" is Lao She's autobiographical novel. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, social unrest and folk customs were corrupted, and the lives of the banner people became increasingly difficult. During the Gengzi period, with the arrival of the Boxer Rebellion, the seemingly peaceful lives of the obedient people in old Beijing suddenly went into trouble. Faced with the broken rivers and mountains and remaining homes, the old Beijingers who had endured the plunder could only remember this period of history in their hearts forever. "Divorce" reveals the gray lives and humble souls of ordinary people through their comic conflicts on marriage and family issues. The novel shows the uniqueness and profundity of Lao She's realist creation with its specific and vivid portrayal of the ordinary citizens of old Beijing.

This book includes the Nobel Prize-winning work "Snow Country" and Kawabata Yasunari's classic "The Lake". The story begins with a train heading to the snowy country. The dusk scene passing by outside the window reflects the girl's eyes reflected on the glass, making it confusing. Shimamura, a dance art researcher, went to the snow-covered mountain village of the Northland three times. He fell into love entanglement with the local geisha Komako and the girl Ye Zi who met by chance. Love and futility... "Snow Country" is Kawabata Yasunari's masterpiece. The beauty of nothingness, cleanliness and sadness depicted in it reaches the extreme\u002F, making people heart-thumping and melancholy.

"I'll Plant Oats in the Next Year": To say that Niu Sixi is a poet, he should have found a talented woman who is as warm and gentle as water. Even if he can't find a talented woman, he should still find an intellectual woman as his companion. The problem is that he won the title of "famous poet" only later, when his second son was seven or eight years old. He couldn't do it at first. After graduating from normal school in 1979, he taught at the county's central primary school. After teaching, he went to the creative team of the cultural center to learn poetry writing techniques from others. People said that skills come from life, read more and write more. Then he wrote and wrote, and sent it to the newspaper as a small piece of tofu for a manuscript fee of 50 cents. At that time, land contracting had not yet become popular in these mountainous areas in the north, and the people were still quite poor, but no matter how poor the young people were, they still had to get married.

Take a look at the four souls of Zhengyi Security: a computer genius who practices martial arts, a big black guy who doesn't like to speak Mandarin, a beautiful woman with a hot body and personality, and a boss who explodes wherever he goes - do you think they are all responsible for being funny? No! They are funny and never delay upholding justice! The seven stories in this book will tell you how they got to the bottom of a case that the FBI did not dare to touch; how the big drug lords who gave the National Drug Enforcement Administration a headache were so angry that they jumped; and why the gangsters who colluded with the city government had to give them three points! There are interesting stories here, twists and turns of the plot, tense yet humorous, allowing you to laugh while experiencing suspense!

"The End of the Day" is a work by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro that won the Booker Prize in 1989. It is also Ishiguro's most important masterpiece. The 1993 film of the same name (also known as "Goodbye"), a remake of the novel, starred the famous British actors Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and six British Academy Film Awards, and became a classic in film history. The novel unfolds with the memories of butler Stevens, telling the various experiences he had during his more than thirty years of service to Lord Darlington. Although he reached the peak of his career, Stevens suppressed his own emotions too coldly and pursued perfect performance of his duties. He missed the last time his father was on his deathbed, and then missed love. Through the protagonist's memories, the novel unravels a person's life journey in front of the readers' eyes. It also reflects the international political landscape during the extraordinary period between World War I and World War II.

"Eugénie Grandet" is the representative work of Balzac, the "father of modern French novels". It is included in the "Studies of Customs" and "Scenes of Provincial Life" in his masterpiece "The Human Comedy". It is regarded as "one of the most outstanding pictures" in this monument in the history of world literature. Through a network structure model, Balzac takes the protagonist Grandet's family life as the main line and Eugénie's love tragedy as the core of contradiction, comprehensively showing the French society in the first half of the 19th century, and at the same time describing the diverse and complex characters. In the work, there are Grandet who represents the stinginess, greed, cunning and coldness of the bourgeois nouveau riche; there is also the innocent and simple girl Eugenie who has abundant sympathy and love in the "kingdom of money"; and there is the dandy Charlie who sells his feelings and puts his interests first.

Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer people riding horses on the plateau, and the legendary riders of the past are now riding motorcycles. A horse used to sell for 20,000 yuan, but now it sells for 8,000 yuan, which is equivalent to a mid-range motorcycle. It has only been a few years since the motorcycle entered the source area of ​​the Lancang River, and riders on the plateau have already treated it like riding a wild horse. Through TV, the riders quickly realized what those Western motorcyclists had in common with them. They installed rubber streamers on their motorcycles, hung bronze eagle heads, wore sunglasses and traditional felt hats, and their outfits were dusty from the work of herding yaks. They combined modern fashion with primitive ruggedness in an unpretentious, fashionable, accurate and natural way.

"Steppenwolf" is the masterpiece of German writer Hermann Hesse, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. Harry Harrell, who has never returned home and is always on the road, pursuing the "fun" of wandering, is incompatible with modern society and the world around him. He always nervously pursues classics and the ultimate truth. In extreme fatigue, he breaks down schizophrenia and becomes a community of wolf and human. He wants to commit suicide many times. On the night when Harrell finally made up his mind to commit suicide, he met the beautiful Hermina, and a strange turn of fate occurred. In the interactions with several important figures such as the dancer Hermina, the ballroom musician Pablo, the prostitute Maria, etc., He gradually understood the true meaning of life and art, and eliminated the mental tension and despair; in the end, he was able to make an incredible connection between the ordinary and even vulgar life and the lofty thoughts of "immortals" such as Goethe and Mozart, and understood the true meaning of life and art in the magic theater.

As soon as Brown Leather Shoes left Yongdingmen Railway Station, he bumped into Bigfoot Cuigu, which he never expected. "Young Master!" La La shouted, and Cui Gu reached out to grab the luggage. He didn't see her at first. People are like swarms of bees at dusk, coming and going in groups, noisy and crowded. The rain had just stopped, and the puddles on the muddy ground shone brightly like mirrors. He avoided the puddles and walked, stepping and jumping carefully, trying his best to keep his leather shoes from being stained with mud. He wiped these shoes several times on the train. When driving through Changzhou, he bought a glutinous rice dumpling and used the stickiness of the rice dumpling leaves to smooth out the thin skin on the upper part of his right foot. As he jumped into the last puddle, he was slapped on the ass by a carrying wicker basket.

This book is a novel written by the famous writer Alai for the "Retelling of Myths" series. By telling the story of King Gesar in Tibetan mythology, from his birth as the son of the god, to his subjugation of demons, stabilization of the three realms, and finally his return to the heaven, it shows the history of the Tibetan nation from a primitive tribal alliance to the emergence of a nation, and displays the unique cultural essence of the Tibetan nation. This book was previously published by our company in 2009, and this is the revised version. King Gesar is a heroic figure in Tibetan legends. According to legend, he is the incarnation of the Son of God, Tribagawa. Out of sympathy for the suffering of demons in the world, he specially descended to the world to conquer demons and eliminate them, creating a better life for the world. King Gesar's life was full of turbulent battles with evil forces and drove away the invaders who robbed the people.

"Learning to Speak" is a collection of short stories full of autobiography by British Booker Prize writer Hilary Mantel. The book contains six short stories: "King Billy Was a Good Gentleman," "The disinfecting," "Beautiful Curves," "Learning to Speak," "Four Floors Up" and "The Clean Slate," as well as exciting excerpts from Hilary Mantel's autobiography "The End of the Breath." "Learning to Speak" has a strong autobiographical flavor by Hilary Mantel herself, describing multiple stories related to childhood: "King Billy Was a Good Gentleman" has a child who must overcome the pain of losing his father and the confusion of the disappearing Irish cultural heritage; "Beautiful Curve" is about A tale of friendship, faith and a near-disaster in a scrapyard; the narrator in "Learning to Speak" corrects her northern accent with the help of a has-been actress... With a disorienting lightness, Mantel uncovers a haunting period of childhood transformation.

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Yu Hua's latest novel tells the story of what happened seven days after the death of an ordinary person: a man named Yang Fei died, but his soul seemed not far away. He received a phone call. People at the funeral home complained that his cremation was late, but it was Yang Fei himself who was about to be cremated... On the way to the funeral home, he experienced a series of bizarre events, as well as the love-hate separation with his relatives and friends before his death. The difficulty of life, the twists and turns of love, the warmth of family... The living people have no way to find an exit and can only find reconciliation and redemption in the world after death. Yu Hua wrote about the deep sorrow and touching warmth in a simple and simple way, and fully described the kindness and sorrow of the Chinese people.

This is a deeply emotional work by Martin Walser, the master of German literature. The famous writer Basil Schlupp fell in love at first sight with the goddess Maia Schnelling. He tried to send a letter confessing his love, thus starting a period of love-making. They used letters to complete their betrayal of marriage, but the letters revealed that they were the first to be betrayed in the marriage enclosure. Maya's husband is suddenly diagnosed with a terminal illness, and Maya accompanies him on the last bicycle ride of her life in the Canadian wilderness. Schlupp began to wait silently...

One is about a woman in troubled times who was thrown into the turbulent times by accident, from opening a tea house to traveling to the Soviet Union and then secretly resisting Japan; the other is about a woman who was forced to petition in peacetime but was forced to petition. As human beings, they also encountered difficulties in life.