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This book examines the interaction and tension between imperial discourse and national narrative in American literature (1832-1918), and explores how American literature, as an ideological representation, reflects the political culture and power relations of the empire. By analyzing regional imagination, representation and myth construction in American literary works, we explore the presentation of imperial discourse and national narrative in American literature. The history of the development of the American nation-state is also a history of intertwined national construction and imperial imagination. The tension between the two runs throughout, making each stage of its development carry the imprint of imperial discourse politics. It not only demonstrates the changes in American social concepts, but also reflects Americans' territorial awareness, imperial imagination, and national identity construction.

This monograph is based on the literary stylistic analysis model proposed by the famous British stylistician Rich, and borrows the method of corpus linguistics to focus on comparing the similarities and differences between the Bible text and Hemingway text in terms of word choice, sentence selection, plot planning and rhetoric from the four dimensions of lexicon, syntax, discourse and rhetoric, and conducts a detailed analysis. The research results believe that Hemingway's stylistic style does have a certain origin relationship in the above four aspects, and Hemingway's works inherit the stylistic tradition of biblical literature to a large extent.

Lara was a famous Spanish essayist in the 19th century. There are 23 representative satirical essays (including custom essays, literary criticism, social and political commentary, etc.) Such as "Come Tomorrow: A Collection of Lara's Satires", "Old-School Spaniards", "Dialogue between the Elf and the Bookseller", and "Letters of Figaro". As the Spanish writer Goytilo said, in Lara's close-ups, "a keen diagnosis of the Spanish disaster" can be found.

The Spanish poetry world in the 20th century was "another golden century". Although Machado and Jimenez were both influenced by modernism represented by Ruben Dario, they each took the lead and became representatives of the "1998 generation" and the "14 generation". The "Generation of 1927" is a gathering of stars that complement each other: García Lorca, Alberti, Alessandre, Jorge Guillén, Salinas, Damaso Alonso, etc., Who jointly wrote a colorful myth in the Spanish contemporary poetry world. They abandoned the automatic writing of French surrealism, but paid attention to exploring the surrealist elements in traditional poetry, thus turning Spanish lyric poetry from "pure" to "pluralistic". The Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 divided the Spanish poetry world, and "social poetry" flourished. Since the late 1950s, with the development of the economy, the prosperity of tourism, the loosening of censorship, and the influx of foreign culture, especially North American popular culture represented by movies, the poetry world has become increasingly active. After the transition from the "50 Generation" to the birth of the "New School", Spanish poetry has regained its colorful appearance. From the perspective of combining theory and practice, this book conducts a relatively detailed review and review of the development, genre characteristics, and masterpieces of Spanish poetry in the 20th century.

A new collection of Ted Chiang's works, including "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Door", "Breath", "The Long Road Ahead", "The Life Cycle of Software Objects", "Darcy's New Automatic Machine Nanny", "Double Truth", "The Great Silence", "Navel" and "Anxiety is the Dizziness Caused by Freedom" - The Alchemist's Door, free travel through time and space, how does the science fiction version of One Thousand and One Nights unfold? Every breath I take brings this universe one step closer to death. Free will does not exist, but until you believe it, it is not lethal. Science fiction is littered with artificial creatures, like Athena that jumped out of the head of Zeus, fully formed as soon as they appeared. But consciousness doesn't work like this. What is the real life cycle of a software body? My nanny is a machine. What does that mean for a newborn? Memory is always deceiving us, but we don't realize it. How would civilization change if everyone started keeping a continuous life log? We are not the center of the universe, but at the beginning, humans did not know this. If parallel spaces do exist and conversations can take place, how would you exhaust the possibilities of life?

"Story of Your Life" collects eight of Ted Chiang's early works: "The Story of Your Life", the original novel of the movie "Arrival", his debut novel "Tower of Babel", and "Enlightenment", "Division by Zero", "Seventy-two Letters", "The Evolution of Human Science", "Hell is the Absence of God", "A Pleasure of the Eye" - A linguist learned an alien language, which completely changed her world view. In order to get closer to God, humans cut down wood and burned bricks, pulled carts and built towers. After countless generations of hard work, they finally built a majestic Tower of Babel that stands between heaven and earth. With just a small bottle of potion, you can have superhuman intelligence. This temptation is irresistible. It's a pity that there is more than one Superman. After the soul-stirring Superman showdown, he realized the ultimate wisdom. Dividing any number by zero will never give a meaningful result. What is the result if the relationship between two people is divided by zero? In a world where "names drive everything", nomenclators play with the seventy-two letters to find the code for the reproduction of the human race. When all human scientific research is limited to interpreting post-human scientific research results, is this kind of research still necessary? The wife dies while an angel descends to earth, but the husband must learn how to love God in order to be reunited with his wife after death.

This book focuses on domestic foreign literature research in the past 30 years since the reform and opening up. It focuses on individual cases and issues and is divided into four sections: "Writers' Works", "Literary History and Translation", "Literary Theory and Concepts", and "Overall Reflection on National Literature Research". It has fifteen chapters in total. Each chapter selects typical writers, works, events, phenomena, concepts, genres, issues, etc. In my country's foreign literature research since the reform and opening up for in-depth discussion. The articles in the "Writers' Works" section are arranged in order of the birth date of the writers in question, and cover eight writers including German writers Lessing and Goethe, British writer Ruskin, Russian writer Chekhov, Indian writer Premchand, Arab writer Gibran, French writer Duras, and Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. They are highly representative in the literature of their respective countries, but this project examines them as important cases mainly for their typical significance in more than 30 years of research in my country. The purpose is to reflect on and summarize their acceptance, dissemination, interpretation, translation, misunderstanding and other phenomena with Chinese characteristics in our country.

The "Golden Russia Series" is edited by Wang Jianzhao, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Foreign Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University and a famous poet and translator. It selects classic works by Pushkin, Herzen, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and other masters to present beautiful and profound Russian literature to Chinese readers.

One of the legendary building blocks of modern Britain are the old inns, which permeate British history. Whether it is a traditional or modern old inn, you only need to experience a little bit to experience the British style of the Victorian period. This book describes some of the historic London inns and country inns. Unlike the magnificent high-rise buildings, those inns are either nameless or unknown, but they are all full of the unique charm of retro British style.

This book is one of the representative works of Mr. Soetsu Yanagi, the father of Japanese folk arts. As the founder and first president of the Japan Folk Art Association, Mr. Soetsu Yanagi has decades of valuable collecting experience. With his love for things and his rich collection experience, he recorded these precious insights and essence in these famous essays, talking about why people collect, good and bad tastes in collecting, what he gained from his own collecting experience, etc. He put forward views such as "collecting is a deep love for objects" and "taking pride in buying at a high price is a shallow taste". Constructed an oriental aesthetic system with unique significance and discussed the principles of beauty. Collection is a kind of love for objects.

This book is a collection of essays on the subject of ceramics by Japanese art master Kitaoji Rashanto. The article includes some creative talks introduced by Kitaoji Rashan from the perspective of the creator, such as "My Pottery Making" and "Learned from Building Kilns"; articles from the perspective of appreciators such as "Cooking and Utensils" and "Pottery Appreciation", as well as introductions to Japanese pottery, such as "Japanese Pottery", "Bizen Ware", "The Value of Shino Ware", etc. He has a broad vision and a writing style that goes from simple to profound. He has a very high professional level and is also told in a way that is easy for the public to accept, and is accompanied by rich pictures. In the form of pictures and texts, it leads readers into the wonderful world of Tao. In daily life, people who understand what beauty and elegance are and bring them into their lives will be rich inside even if they live a poor life. I want to make the world a more beautiful place, even just a little bit. My work is a small expression of this desire. --People from Lushan, Beida Road

The book "Travel Notes on the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and Chongqing - Trade and Travel in Western China in the Late Qing Dynasty" mainly describes the journey of the British Li Dele in the late Qing Dynasty, who traveled through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River to Chongqing after hard work, and described what he saw and heard along the way. There are actually three voyages described in the book. The first was the voyage from Shanghai to Chongqing in 1883. The second time was the voyage back down the river from Chongqing to Hankou in the same year. The third time was in 1898 when the author led the ship Lichuan upstream to Chongqing. This was the ship's maiden voyage to Chongqing. At the same time, it also describes Chongqing's social and economic situation at that time. The author's purpose is to allow ships to sail to Chongqing, open up the Sichuan market, and expand Britain's sphere of influence in China. The author also discusses some related issues, such as the livelihood of the boat people, religious beliefs and missionary work, women's foot binding, Feng Shui superstition, opium cultivation and smoking, mining and local industrial and commercial economy. The author has a general good impression of the Chinese working people [especially the people of Sichuan (Chongqing)], and has exposed the corruption and incompetence of the then Qing rulers and their officials at all levels.

"Osmanthus" is a long poem about China by the famous poet Adonis. It describes the poet's trip to China in September and October 2018, especially the impressions, feelings and thoughts of the trip to southern Anhui and Huangshan. The entire poem consists of 50 relatively independent poems. Every line reveals his love for China's natural landscape and long history and culture, as well as his friendship for the Chinese people. Friendship is one of the keynotes of the long poem "Osmanthus". Adonis's deep affection for China's nature, culture and friends are evident in the poem. The China in his eyes is "not the vertical and horizontal lines, but the bursts of light." The Chinese women in his mind are "a procession of clouds, surrounded by the thunder of form, guided by the lightning of meaning."

The selected translations in this book are poems from various periods of ancient Arabia (the Jahiliya period, the Islamic period, the Umayyad period, the Abbasid period, the modern period and the Andalusian period). The selected poems involve important poetry genres, such as the hanging poems and chivalrous poems of the Jahiliya period; and representative people of each period, such as Ummrull Qais, Antara, Baishar bin Burd, Abu Nuwas, Mutanaibi, Abu Attahiyeh, Mai'ali, etc. The topics of poetry include descriptive poems, hymns, praise poems, chastity poems, erotic poems, satirical poems, philosophical poems, wine poems, exhortation poems, mourning poems, etc.

This book is an innovative and in-depth study of the nationalist literary trends prevalent in Asia and Africa from the mid-19th century to the 20th century. After defining the connotation and extension of "Oriental modern nationalist literary thought", this book systematically studies the regional characteristics of this thought, its different internal tendencies, its relationship with other important literary trends in Eastern literature at the same time, popular historical themes, classic nationalist writers, national anthems, banned books, and expatriate writers and other special phenomena in modern oriental nationalist literature. This book reveals the core, characteristics and richness of "Oriental modern nationalist literary thought" from different perspectives and levels, and explains the unique value and significance of this literary thought in the modern world literature as a whole.

Through years of accumulation, the editor-in-chief has selected more than 70 representative classic short stories from more than 3,000 short stories by hundreds of well-known British writers and translated them into Chinese. This book introduces the author and creative background of the novel before each novel, and then summarizes the core content and main ideas of each novel in concise language, so that readers can understand it at a glance and have an overall grasp of the content. After the original text, the editor also designed several questions for each article to guide readers to think deeply after reading this article. Each part is bilingual in English and Chinese. This book can be used as a textbook for British and American short story courses for English majors in colleges and universities, an auxiliary textbook for British and American literature courses for English majors, an auxiliary textbook for practical courses in translation majors, a postgraduate elective course textbook, and as a reading and study material for the majority of British and American literature and short story lovers.

Literary iconography is a new knowledge in the new era. "The relationship between literature and images" is a topic of widespread concern in the entire literary, cultural and intellectual circles, including literary theory, and is highly realistic. "Literary iconography" advocates paying equal attention to text and pictures. It is different from the simple examination of text, looking directly at images from literature, or looking back at literature from images. It advocates starting from the basic standpoint of literary research, focusing on image research, and taking the study of the relationship between pictures and text as the core. It also explores the narrative function of images around the historical context of the production, presentation, consumption, dissemination, and evolution of literary images, and sorts out the communication and interaction of literary images in different cultural contexts, thereby laying the foundation for the construction of a new disciplinary branch "literary iconography."

This is the most important collection of academic and cultural essays by the famous contemporary overseas historian Mr. Yu Yingshi over the years. It has been published together and divided into "value chapter", "culture chapter", "history chapter", "scholar chapter", "Confucianism chapter", "reading chapter", "nostalgia chapter" and "sitting in seclusion", "alma mater chapter" and "self-narrative chapter".

This book uses the urbanization process and urban lifestyle as a perspective to re-examine British and American modernist poetry, and explores the transformation of poetry from a pastoral mode to an urban mode in modern urban cultural space. The author reviews the history of development and criticism of British and American urban poetry, and then makes an argument from three aspects based on the different strategies of urban writing of British and American modernist poetry: first, draws on Benjamin's urban sociology theory to analyze the concept of "flaneur" in Baudelaire's poetry, and examines the reflection of the "flaneur"'s gaze and observation posture in Eliot's "The Waste Land" and many other poems. 2. Borrowing the German aesthetic term "Thinking of Placement", using relevant theories of Chinese and Western cross-media criticism, and using Wilde's "Morning Impression" and other poems as models, to examine how British and American modernist poets in a cross-cultural context achieve the aesthetic transcendence of art over daily life through poetic techniques such as imagery, text symbols, creation of color line light and shadow effects, and the use of synaesthetic rhetoric. 3. Borrowing the ancient Greek rhetorical term "artistic transformation" and using relevant theories of Chinese and Western cross-art criticism to explore how to inherit and develop the "artistic transformation" tradition of Western poetry creation and achieve "cross-art transformation" from non-poetry texts such as painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and dance to poetic texts.

At the age of seventeen, V. S. Naipaul obtained a government scholarship and left Trinidad to study at Oxford. From then on, he began to correspond with his father. Four years later, my father passed away. Four years later, his son's work was successfully published. This book collects letters between V. S. Naipaul and his father and other family members from 1950 to 1954. Describing the true growth path of a great literary genius, 249 unusual, intimate and candid letters from home. "I miss home. Do you know what I long for? I long for the night that comes suddenly without warning, and I long for the crazy rainstorm at night. I long for the monotonous sound of the rain hitting the roof, or the sound of raindrops falling on the wide leaves of the beautiful wild taro plants. In short, I long for home and the atmosphere of home. I miss cycling, the sea, the back seats of the Rialto Cinema, the kind of cigarettes I smoked, and the embarrassing things that happen to everyone."

This book is a collection of essays on the theme of tea and beauty by the famous Japanese aesthetic master Soetsu Yanagi. Collects Liu Zongetsu's articles on tea ceremony, tea utensils, aesthetics, etc. In the book, Yanagi Zongetsu conducted a unique and profound discussion on the theme of what is beauty and what is the tea ceremony, and discussed beauty from multiple perspectives. Liu Zongyue believes that to deeply understand the heart and essence of beauty of tea, one must touch and observe it at close range, and observe the beauty through famous tea ceremony utensils. He believes that only by looking at tea ceremony and tea utensils with a free vision that is not bound by fixed ideas can tea enter a freer world. In the article, he also advocated the common principles of Japanese beauty, commented on tea drinkers of the past and present, and put forward pertinent and serious requirements for modern tea drinkers. A true tea person should encourage himself as a creator. As far as vision is concerned, boundless freedom is the most important thing. What most tea drinkers lack today is this kind of freedom, tea state, and a deep connection with the virtue of simplicity, but not with arrogance. The tea ceremony is also a lesson in poverty. --Liu Zongyue.

This book is one of the representative works of Mr. Etsu Yanagi, the father of Japanese folk arts. Mr. Yanagi Soetsu wrote these famous essays with a love for objects and rich collection experience. He recorded the stories of these objects together with his own perception of "creation", and thought about the nature of creation from the perspective of a folk artist. He believes that beautiful things are those things that are integrated into daily life and exist for granted. Objects will only come alive in life. He cherishes every encounter with beautiful things, and in these encounters, he has completed questioning and thinking about what "beauty" is. The book not only contains stories about the objects, but also wonderful stories between people about the objects. If you want to improve your appreciation, you must first learn to abandon all constraints. This learning process is like religious practice. If you do this, beauty will be invisible to you. --Liu Zongyue.

"Travel, Life's Most Valuable Investment" is a very influential classic book by investment guru Jim Rogers. It records Rogers' thrilling trip around the world in the early 1990s. After 22 months and a journey of nearly 100,000 kilometers, spanning 52 countries and regions on 6 continents, this investment guru shed his glory as a successful man. As a 37-year-old backpacker, he experienced the joys and sorrows of travel and re-examined the meaning of life. Traveling around the world made him understand that many countries become rich, but over a few years, or decades, or centuries, pride will lead to decline. He also understands that even if all wealth is gone, life goes on. Jim said: "If you have a dream, go for it because you won't get a second chance. If you want to change your life, do it now."

This book is one of the Green Prose Reading Series. It is a collection of new prose works by the famous writer Bolji Yuanye. The author has numerous articles that have been selected into primary and secondary school textbooks, and is very suitable for primary and secondary school students to read. The content of this book includes: flowers wake up from dew, flowers have words, cockscombs, honeysuckle, green glazed lily, cotton, you bloom and I bloom, the rotation and burning of colors, the fragrance of plain flowers, sweet sentences, cherry blossoms missing cherries on the branches, growing old together with pear blossoms, sugarcane that sweetens itself to death, etc.

"Illustrated Book of Flora and Fauna of Walden" is a natural history classic written for everyone by Thoreau, a representative figure in American literary circles in the mid-19th century. If "Thoreau's Diary" is the "Bible" for nature lovers, then "Walden's Illustrated Book of Flora and Fauna" is the much-anticipated essence. The book uses 600 diary entries to introduce 500 species of wild plants and 400 species of wild animals, and also inserts 200 exquisite illustrations drawn by the National Book Award-winning illustrators Barry Moser and Debbie Cotter Caspari. For many years, Thoreau gave himself the task of roaming the woodlands, meadows, and wetlands of his native Concord area, observing the plants, animals, weather, and his neighbors, and then recording his observations in his "Thoreau's Journal." This record is not only a running account of natural history, but also an in-depth exploration of the spiritual significance of animals and plants to Thoreau. The "Illustrated Book of Flora and Fauna of Walden" unearths the treasure of "Thoreau's Diary", collects its philosophical thoughts about plants and interesting things about animals, and presents a panoramic picture of the natural world around the writer Thoreau.

Gene children, node humans, enhanced metahumans, data vampires, mechanically modified humans, kings of discarded objects, god-making artists... Tel Aviv, Central Star Station, Jerusalem, Tangyuan City, Moon Port, Polo Port... Earth, Mars, Meru River, Ceres, Titan, initial space, chaotic universe... In the not-too-distant future, after a world-wide diaspora, 250,000 people are stranded at the Central Star Station. Cities are dilapidated, technology is out of control, life is cheap, data is overflowing, and the earth has become a garbage dump in the universe. In the face of war, diaspora, invasion of data and technology, the very definition of "human" has been questioned. The various "human beings" living here continue their evolution...

This set is the masterpiece of eight well-known Nobel Prize winners. They are Hermann Hesse's "Demian: The Wandering Boyhood", "Under the Wheel", "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf", Albert Camus's "The Plague", Romain Rolland's "Johan Christophe: All 3 Volumes" and "The Biography", Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell" , Arms" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls", Rabindranath Tagore's "Birds and Crescent Moon", "The Religion of Man" and "Gitanjali", Jean-Dominique Briere's "Bob Dylan: Songs of a Poet", Yeats's "I Thought I'd Be Old with You" and Thelma Lagrave's "The Travels of Niels Riding a Goose".

Starting from the perspective of thought, memory and myth, this book considers Silko's political exploration of cultural home, historical home and spiritual home in "Ceremony", "Annals of the Dead" and "Dune Garden", revealing the survival plight of Indians under the oppression of colonialism and imperialism and their unremitting efforts to seek cultural, historical and spiritual home. In the process of clarifying historical accumulation, the Indian history in small letters is brought to the surface, and the silenced minority groups re-enter the space of historical discourse. This book reveals the Indians' pursuit of cultural, historical and spiritual homeland through Silko's three novels. On the one hand, it reveals the hidden historical, cultural and political connotations behind homeland. On the other hand, it expresses the author's concern about the Indians' living conditions, highlighting the current significance of the search for homeland.

Have you ever remembered? Rock and roll and Elvis, Superman and Batman comics, hula hoops...

Those things that you thought would never happen, finally happened to you one by one. You ask yourself: How many mornings are left? A door has closed. Another door has opened. You have entered the winter of life. In the sixty-third winter of his life, a cold, windy and rainy winter with almost no sun, Paul Auster sat at his desk and wrote a personal history and memoir about the body, which is like a journey through winter. In "Loneliness and What It Creates" thirty years ago, Auster reflected on loneliness, fatherhood and the writer's consciousness in a touching way, while "Winter Notes" is a more candid self-confession and reflection. He unabashedly revealed the happy and painful physical memories, complex and deep emotional desires, and the bond between his parents in his more than sixty years of life, including the most fragile moments, trying to find unique and shining moments again in the depths of memory.

On the basis of revisiting the classics, this book focuses more on the works of the 20th century, focusing on introducing the writers, works and artistic characteristics of world-famous literary works. It helps readers understand the spirit of Western culture and the charm of Eastern culture in the context of world literature, absorb the essence of human culture, love life, purify the soul, improve overall quality, and then reshape a strong spiritual personality.

There are many ancient temples and a weak view of history. It is closer to artifice and fiction than to nature. Passionate about funny and ridiculous things, there are strange people hidden in the streets and alleys. The unique structure has many holes and is connected to the "other shore". There are three things that are present in the old streets in the city but not in the new suburban ones: ancient trees, religious facilities, and quiet corners. These places are openings to the world... In Kyoto, such openings abound... It is a more metaphysical and charming city than what is depicted in movies and TV shows.

With the deepening of human civilization, the teaching and dissemination of female literature from the perspective of gender culture urgently needs to be popularized in our country. However, the teaching and research of Western female literature with gender culture as the entry point is still relatively marginalized in mainland my country, and related teaching materials are even rarer. This textbook fills the domestic gap from the history of Western women's literature and the perspective of gender culture. This textbook has the following characteristics: First, the textbook is in line with Western feminist trends and helps expand students' international horizons. Second, the teaching materials are based on the purpose of general education courses and help students develop a sound personality. Third, the textbook reflects on male-dominated Western literature and helps cultivate students' critical thinking. Fourth, from the selection of materials, the key and difficult points should be handled properly. Fifth, the writing style is both illustrated and bilingual. Sixth, the textbook handles key points and difficulties skillfully. Except for the works of a few female writers who are respected by mainstream culture and have been included in textbooks, it selects those written by women who have been annihilated by mainstream literature to highlight the status of women in their era.

From the bright and gorgeous Meiji era to the splendid and romantic Taisho era, Moro Meye uses profound and simple writing to outline one after another Japanese strange women as beautiful as cherry blossoms! During the Taisho era, Japan became increasingly wealthy and culturally flourished. Not only did a "new middle class" of industrialists and office workers appear, but a group of insightful people and a "new female class" were also cultivated. Women began to get rid of the unequal treatment given by society and family in the past, and began to explore ways to be independent, engage in emerging industries, and step by step onto the social stage. Following the Japanese historical story, Miya uses her novel style to tell you the wonderful stories of the era when urban life began to be embraced, female consciousness began to awaken, and female charm began to show!

103 ways to deal with the world, a life guide to coexist calmly with uneasiness, adversity, and setbacks. This book sorts out seven major themes from more than 2,500 letters of Natsume Soseki that have been handed down to the world today: challenge, happiness, character, criticism, conduct, reserve, and performance. When encountering uneasiness and adversity, a life guide with which you can coexist peacefully and life words full of wisdom can make people feel lighter and lighter, as if an accompanying spiritual mentor is working with you to solve all the problems in life.

This is a "book of insights" that brings together Yamamoto's emotions for nearly ten years. There are the memories of Yamamoto Fumio resigning from the company and returning to his parents' home to "grow old"; there are the emotional twists and turns of getting married, divorced and remarried; there is the joy and forgetfulness of going from the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Newcomer Award to the Naoki Award; there is the dilemma of suffering from depression because of winning the Naoki Award; in this way, the author has written prose essays for various media with various moods in these ten years, sometimes joking, sometimes serious. Although the styles are different, the author clearly presents his true self to the readers with his most sincere heart. Warm words and thoughtful insights are given to every one of you who is lost...

Leacock is a famous Canadian humorist and is considered to be another world-class humor master after Dickens and Mark Twain. He is good at discovering the ridiculousness and absurdity that people are blind to in daily life, and uses an extremely flat style to highlight it, and integrates the spirit of comedy and tragedy. Gao Jian's translation selects 11 and 33 classic works from Leacock's collection of more than 20 humor works, fully demonstrating the essence of Leacock's humor.

Ms. Wilmes, the author of "Who Doesn't Love to Be Treated as a Saint", can be described as a "famous editor" of the British generation, and has maintained good personal relationships with many British literary figures. This collection of her essays can be called "one person's history of contemporary British literature", covering most of the important writers of contemporary British literature. It uses rich British humor and typical British ridicule to vividly depict anecdotes about the contemporary British literary world. Anecdotes and ephemera are wonderful examples of literature; the London Review of Books, which she edits, insists on publishing pertinent, independent, outspoken and insightful book reviews, and is a benchmark for British literary taste, style and fashion. As the editor-in-chief of the London Review of Books, a highly influential European literary and art publication, Mary-Kay Wilmes has a group of loyal writers and scholarly contributors around her. She is indifferent to some well-known big-name authors, but only favors truly good writing and good knowledge. This book collects her recollections of several key figures in the London Review of Books, her book reviews (especially her love of writing about shocking "bad women") and her diary. In addition, there are articles written by Frank Kermode, Mary Beard, Wendy Steiner and other important authors of the London Review of Books on their interactions with Wilmes. These are exclusive historical materials and are publicly available to readers for the first time. Mary-Kay Wilmers spent her teenage years in the United States, Belgium and England, and studied French and Russian at Oxford University as an undergraduate. She originally intended to be a simultaneous interpreter, but after graduating from college, she worked as a secretary at Eliot's Faber Publishing House, during which time she began to write for the New Statesman. After that, she worked as deputy editor of "The Listener" magazine and fiction editor of "The Times Literary Supplement". In 1979, she co-founded the "London Review of Books" with Carl Miller, and has served as independent editor-in-chief since 1992. In 2009, she published a family history, The Eitingons, and in 2018, a collection of essays, Human Relaitons And Other Difficulties. Sheng Yun is a contributing editor of the Shanghai Review of Books, a contributor to the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement, and has maintained a deep friendship with Ms. Wilmes.

"How Steel Was Tempered" is an excellent novel written by former Soviet writer Nikolai Ostrovsky based on his own personal experience. The path taken by the protagonist Paul Korchagin reflects the fearless spirit of the first generation of Soviet revolutionary youths who were not afraid of difficulties, struggled hard, and had the courage to win, and inspired generations of aspiring young people to realize their ideals. The images in his novels transcend time, space, and national boundaries, and have had a worldwide impact, shaking the hearts of generations.

This book is the representative work of the famous Russian short story writer Babel. In 1920, at the age of 26, he followed the First Cavalry Army of the Soviet Red Army led by Budyonny in attacking Poland as a war correspondent. This was the last large-scale cavalry battle in European history and in human history. This tragic war lasted for three months. Babel recorded everything he witnessed in his battlefield diary: bravery and cowardice, integrity and hypocrisy, killing and death, as well as repeatedly trampled towns and unarmed and fearful civilians. From 1923 to 1924, he successively wrote more than 30 novels based on these battlefield diaries, which is "Cavalry Army". In addition to objectively and sincerely recording many astonishing facts, these novels also have many extraordinary features in terms of language, details and structure, and thus have extremely high artistic achievements. "Cavalry" was republished in 1975 and translated into more than 20 languages, shocking the European and American literary circles. In 1986, "European" magazine selected 100 world novelists, and Babel ranked first because of this novel.

I. Odoyevtseva is a famous long-lived female writer in the Russian Silver Age in the 20th century. She is both a poet of the Silver Age and a witness of this era. This book is a memoir about expatriate literature in the Silver Age. It tells the unforgettable gatherings, ups and downs experiences and strong homesickness of Russian writers who fled to Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. Each of these writers has a unique personality and talent, such as the famous poet Yesenin, the founder of modern dance Duncan, the famous female poet Tsvetaeva, the Russian national treasure writer Tefi, the writer couple Gippius and Merezhkovsky, etc., Which are unforgettable. Among them, the author's description and characterization of the Nobel Prize winner Bunin is particularly delicate and profound, showing his inner loneliness and depth in his later years. With its beautiful, rich and wonderful content, this book has become an outstanding representative of Russian "diaspora literature".

Haruki Murakami's first true music essay, an in-depth understanding of Murakami's musical world. Even if the moon disappears, even if you are abandoned by your lover, even if you are laughed at by a puppy, you can have nothing but music. Without the warmth of memory, our lives on the third planet in the solar system would inevitably become an unbearably cold thing. Because of this, we fall in love and sometimes listen to music like we are in love. Follow senior music critic Haruki Murakami to experience the possibility of synaesthesia between words and music art. This is Haruki Murakami's first purely musical essay. Murakami carefully selected 11 famous songs from all classic music scenes and wrote the article, which is full of emotions about music and provides an opportunity to gain an in-depth understanding of Murakami's music world. From Schubert to Stan Gates, from Bruce Springsteen to Goo Suga, these ten essays reveal the good music in Murakami's heart.

Japanese miscellaneous cooking - Murakami's taste of trivia and survival. Fifty "rather problematic" personal essays by the "rather problematic" Haruki Murakami. Murakami is a little lucky, a record fanatic, a sukiyaki lover, and in short, an idler who loves cats. This book has been serialized in the magazine "anan" since March 2000, spanning a year and including 50 essays. "Pizza", "records", "Rhodes Island", "Virginia Woolf", "donuts", these keywords alone are enough to attract the attention of all Murakami fans. Of course, it also includes many new topics, such as "Burned Bras", "Persimmon Seed Problem", "Carrot King", etc. Among them, "Chicken Sukiyaki", "Thick Roll Sushi", "Hand Roll" and many other topics related to Japanese cuisine, the entire collection of essays is full of Murakami flavor. What is particularly impressive is that it starts with "About a Suit", a memory of attending the Newcomer Award Ceremony of "Portrait" as a writer, and then examines "death", one of the main themes in Murakami's works, while quoting lines from Chandler's novels, and ends with "Saying Goodbye." "I feel that in the corresponding background and music, I was able to successfully say goodbye to the twentieth century from a personal perspective." (Say Goodbye) This last sentence shows that this book marks an important point in Murakami's maturity or transition period as a writer.

This book is a record of the spiritual growth and medical experience of a Harvard Medical School student for four years. From the moment she walked into Harvard, she faced not only the physical and mental pain and struggle of patients, but also a direct glimpse into the speechless mysteries of life. With vivid writing, Roseman narrates her journey from being an ignorant first-year student with a "white robe" to being an intern in emergency department, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, psychiatry, etc., And growing into an excellent doctor under the pressure of work and life. During this period, she experienced excitement, pride, frustration and even self-doubt. However, in the end she understood that her journey as a doctor in white robes would never end. In addition, the author also gives a wonderful account of the contradictions and entanglements in the highly sensitive doctor-patient relationship in the book.

In 950 AD, the mysterious Khazar Kingdom. A country torn apart, two knight-errant swordsmen who are also good at thieves. Zelikman, dressed in black, is pale, thin, and sentimental; Amran has gray hair, a tall build, and extraordinary skills. They are both civil and military, one white and one black, they are killers, liars and charlatans. Driven by coercion, inducement and curiosity, they were hired to escort a strange young man with a bad temper and a mysterious identity back to his hometown. However, these Khazar gentlemen did not know that they were about to embark on a big adventure beyond their imagination...

A lonely farmhouse located in Texas, Texas is where Gann was born, but the town where he was born is called "Lufkin", about 180 miles south of Texarkana. The northeastern corner of what is known as the Lone Star State. This place is about 8 miles west of Texarkana. That day was June 10, Sunday morning. Amelia Gordon turned over in bed and saw her newborn son. The sun was shining through the window on his young body.

In 1831, Darwin graduated from Cambridge University. Restless, he embarked on a five-year trip around the world on the naval exploration ship "Beagle", interacting with various animals, plants, and geology along the way. Along the way, he landed in North America, transferred to South America, and visited the Australian islands. He experienced countless changes and marveled at the wonders of the world. There are both the majestic scenery of biologists and fascinating interesting stories like literature: crabs eating coconuts, hailstones that kill wild deer, small fish that dare to fight sharks, frogs that know music, simple and charming Argentinian girls, poor rich men, beautiful Tahitians, etc. All of these make people fascinated, scared, and laughable. Let us enter the interesting world described by Darwin, and experience the vivid creative source of Marquez in the hometown of the Indians and the fairy tale world.

Anne Frank (1929-1945) was a Jewish girl born in Frankfurt, Germany. An asteroid numbered 5535 was named "5535 Annefrank" after her. During World War II, the Nazis implemented anti-Jewish laws. In order to escape persecution, Anne hid in a secret room with her parents. Anne's family hid here for 25 months, during which Anne recorded every bit of life here in a diary - this was her thirteenth birthday gift. She wrote about the confusion of growing up in this special environment, her expectations for love, her fear of war and persecution, but more importantly, her enthusiasm and hope for life. Her courage and amazing perseverance can be seen between the lines. "The Diary of Anne Frank (full color translation)" became a witness to the extermination of the Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II. After Anne's family was arrested, the diary was discovered and preserved by Mape Gies. It was republished as "The Diary of Anne Frank" in 1952. It has been translated into multiple languages ​​and adapted into numerous plays and movies.

This book is the most comprehensive monograph in China that introduces, analyzes and comments on Glass's works. The author divides Glass's works into periods, including the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and the latest works after 2000. There is an overall overview of each period, pointing out the outstanding points of his writing, and focusing on one of the representative works for discussion. "The Tin Drum" in the 1950s used small characters to express big history, thereby liquidating the history of the Third Reich and the human weaknesses in history; "Cat and Jerry" in the 1960s continued to face the Nazi history full of militarism and heroism, focusing on describing the tragic fate of individuals under collective pressure; "The Snail Diary" in the 1970s not only showed the tragic fate of the Danzig Jews during the Third Reich, but also expressed the author's thinking about the real politics of Germany; "Mouse" in the 1980s showed that human beings over-advocate the power of reason and technology, which led to an irrational explosion. This irrationality caused by extreme rationality is very similar to the mass murder of modernity products in Nazi history; "My Century" in the 1990s reviewed Germany's glorious and terrifying 20th century through different characters "I" in the historical process. Centennial History is like a panorama and cross-section of 20th century German history sketched by literary means; "Crab Walk", published in 2002, warned of the danger of the resurgence of neo-Nazism by writing about the little-known "Gustloff" shipwreck in German history and its real-life impact, indicating and confirming Grass's view of the cyclical nature of history.

The author of "My Name is Red", Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk writes affectionately about his hometown Istanbul; it exclusively includes 450 photos and a new long preface written by Pamuk, fully presenting all the memories of the Pamuk family and the city. "Istanbul: Memory of a City" is not only a personal history, but also the sadness of the city. The unique "Hüzün" of this city has already penetrated into the young Pamuk's body and soul. Now as a writer, Pamuk, with his unique sense of history and outstanding talent for description, revisited the secret history of his family, unearthed the context of the past in the old place, and collaged the urban life of contemporary Istanbul. Following his memories of growing up, we can witness his personal lost good times, understand the history of the city where tradition and modernity coexist, and feel the sentimentality of Turkish civilization. "Istanbul: Memory of a City" contains a total of 450 black and white photos. Compared with the original version, there are 230 new pictures, all of which were personally selected by the author. Pamuk connected the pictures with his memories, the Turkish "Hüzün", the black and white urban architecture, the poor people in provincial towns, the post-imperial melancholy and the desolation of architectural ruins. Pamuk himself said: "The previous version of "Istanbul: Memories of a City" was a text-based book; while the new version of "Istanbul in Light and Shadow" is a visual-based book. In the previous book, the photos were attached to the text; but in this version, I can say that the text interprets the emotions carried by the photos. Reading this book from right to left will also be full of interest."