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What kind of love makes a girl have a crush on a forgetful and unfaithful writer for 18 years, and only decides to confess to him on her deathbed? In a war-torn era, why did the four daughters of the March family with very different personalities have the courage to live independently and become a heart-warming growth guide for girls all over the world? If Rochester had not suffered the fire and still lived with his crazy woman, how would Jane Eyre choose her own life path? How many more girls are going to be killed by "misogyny"? Why do women have to have their own money and room? What does it look like for a smart woman to be independent? Her story is very short, about a farm, a husband, and a lover. Can a few words bear the bitterness and joy of Karen's life? How did Emily Dickinson, who gave up social life at the age of 25, stayed home and never married, and created thousands of beautiful poems, become a legendary female poet in American history? The manuscript of "The Second Sex" author Beauvoir's never-before-published novel has been published for the first time! Who is Beauvoir's ideal example of a "genius girlfriend"? The content of the "Women's Awakening" series is a guide to your feminist growth!

Every chapter writes about ghosts and monsters, and every sentence cuts into people's hearts! In the "Hell Transformation" screen painted by the painter Yoshihide, there are blazing flames everywhere, and a few wisps of black smoke rising like splashes of ink. None of the sinners who are burned by the fire of karma and writhing in pain look like those in the common pictures of hell. The most shocking thing among them is the woman wearing gorgeous clothes and screaming in the fire... At first glance, it feels like falling into hell! In order to paint this perfect screen, what kind of tragic hell did Yoshihide create? This book, starting with "Hell Transformation", selects 18 ghostly ghost stories and fables short stories by Akutagawa. It specially includes 8 rarely translated works such as "The Madonna in Black", "Strange Stories" and "Two Letters" which are dark and strange!

"Happy Death": Mersault, a small employee in the company, does boring work day after day and lives an unchanging life. He is lonely, nihilistic, and has no interest in the entire world. After orchestrating a murder, he gained vast wealth and was able to escape his eight-hour day job, becoming rich and free. Start traveling and traveling around... Can you be happy if you have money? Can you be happy if you have time? Can you be happy with a lover and love? How can we truly feel self-satisfaction and happiness? Meursault kept thinking about these issues during his journey and explored the joy of living... "The Outsider": Meursault, a small company clerk, was accused by the court of murder, but was eventually sentenced to death because he "did not cry when his mother was buried." In our society, anyone who does not cry at his mother's funeral is liable to death. --Camus

Xu Guoping's collection of short stories extracts human nature from all kinds of life and various tasks. The language style is simple and intimate, and he is good at telling stories. We can see every trace of Mo Yan's creative style, and also have traces of Jia Pingwa's early creative style.

This book selects 60 excellent recent novels by Fei Hua Fei Wu, divided into six short collections: "He Luo Feng", "Fashion Bar", "Maixiangyuan", "Taoyuan Ferry", "Yulin Ling" and "Drunken Beauty". His representative works in the new era: "Swordsman's Sorrow", "Fireworks in March", "Smoke", "Small Love", "Brotherhood", "Visiting the Snow", "Rain Lin Ring", etc. It also includes the author's latest "Urban "Wind" works such as "Zhou Nanyi", "Jade Hibiscus", "Lilac Knot", "Lin's Black Rose", "Lin's Red Rose", "Lin's Cigarette", "Love-forgetting Baolong Avatar", "Peach Blossom STYLE", etc. With the author's rich urban life experience, the deepening of his unique understanding of social phenomena and philosophical thinking, as well as the innovative breakthrough of the author's writing techniques, the writing style of "Neither Flower nor Mist" has become increasingly mature. The works included in this book organically integrate the author's profound classical literary heritage with his unique spirituality, wisdom, and chivalrous tenderness. They are not only imbued with a touch of cultural flavor, but also promote a fashionable and fresh urban style, giving readers unexpected aesthetic pleasure!

5 stories of reversing stereotypes × 5 children who grew up hard = 5 times the miracle of warmth. How do we overcome teacher stereotypes? Socrates said: "The only thing I know is that I know nothing." How do we get rid of our prejudices against our classmates? "The Godfather" said, "Don't hate your enemies, it will affect your judgment." How do we overcome our cowardice? Parents are humans, so they can be angry and depressed; teachers are also humans, so they can be depressed and cowardly; but Optimus Prime is not a human, but people can make a 180-degree change from depression to optimism just like him. How do we respond to life's challenges? The basketball coach told me: "If you believe in yourself, it is not a gamble, but a challenge. It is your own right to challenge your life." How can we achieve happiness? My mother said: "The ones who laugh last are always serious and honest people." Stereotypes are like a huge wall erected in everyone's life.

"The Tutor is Dead" is a collection of short and medium-sized novels by Li Er. It includes seven novels focusing on intellectuals, "The Tutor is Dead", "Forgetting", "Night Tour in the Library", "Gap", "Light and Shadow", "Levitation" and "Funeral". Li Er has long been committed to describing the living conditions of intellectual groups, focusing on their various spiritual and practical situations. The 7 works included in this book more concentratedly reflect Li Er's observations and thinking. Different characters from chapter to chapter reflect and echo each other, and are closely connected internally, thus forming multiple tonal textual meanings, reflecting Li Er's overall style of creation. It is of great significance to our comprehensive understanding of Li Er's poetic construction.

"The Gabby Mute" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Li Er. It includes 8 works: "The Gabby Mute", "The Dumb Voice", "The Poetics of the Afternoon", "Bright", "National Highway", "The Angel on the Second Street", "My Friend's Wife" and "The Lyrical Era", which reflect Li Er's observations and thoughts on intellectual groups. They were created before "Brother Yingwu", and their themes and characters complement the portraits of intellectuals in "Brother Yingwu". Li Er has long been committed to describing the living conditions of intellectual groups, focusing on their various spiritual and practical situations. The 8 works selected this time are each independent but connected with each other. The stories of the same character are scattered in the corners of different chapters, scattered in form but gathered in spirit, resulting in more diverse forms and meanings, which can better demonstrate Li Er's modern poetic construction as a whole.

This book selects 11 classic works written by Chekhov in different periods, each of which is a microcosm. Among them, "The Man in the Trap" tells the story of a timid teacher and his failed marriage, revealing the stagnant and suffocating atmosphere of the entire society under the tsar's rule; "Chameleon" portrays a hypocritical and flattering patrolman Ochumelov who adapts to the situation; "Wanka" tells the story of an orphan who was an apprentice and couldn't bear the abuse and wrote the next chapter. The story of a letter that cannot be sent... In his works, Chekhov highly downplays the plot, uses simple and natural language, selects fragments of daily life, and vividly depicts the joys and sorrows of life with tears and laughter in a humorous and ironic way. It reflects the life reality of the great changes in Russian society at the end of the 19th century, and gives readers a real and profound reading experience.

The most professional and authoritative literature ranking list in China. The 2021 award-winning short and medium-length stories collection records this year's new achievements in Chinese short and medium-sized novels with twenty key works. Mo Yan said: "Not giving manuscripts that I am not satisfied with to Harvest is my greatest respect for Harvest." Wang An recalled in "Harvest": "It has a curious childlike character and is ready to explore all new things, which makes it always show a youthful appearance." Nearly three-quarters of Yu Hua's works were published in "Harvest", including the famous "Shouting in the Drizzle", "Alive", "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", etc. "Later I realized that this was a tradition that started when Ba Jin and Jin Yi founded Harvest. No matter how famous the author is, he will get the same respect in Harvest." Celebrity recommendation: The Harvest ranking list has the same style as the publication, which is both authoritative and cutting-edge. --Jin Li (critic, professor) The characteristics of the "Harvest" ranking list: inclusive, rich and clean, with profound literary quality. --Zhang Li (critic, professor)

"All Things That Rise Must Converge" is the pinnacle short story collection of Flannery O'Connor, a heavyweight American literary writer, before she bid farewell to the literary world and passed away. The eleven works included in the volume, including "All Things Rising Must Converge" and "Festival in Partridge Town," explore issues such as faith, morality, and race that are familiar to O'Connor's readers. These stories are both sad and happy, beautiful and grotesque, and bear a strong O'Connor mark. Most of the protagonists in O'Connor's works are incompatible with their surroundings, and the contrasting effect produced reflects his writing style. In order to make the concept obvious, the writer has to use drastic methods. "When he encounters the hearing-impaired, he shouts; when he encounters the visually impaired, he draws the characters large and shocking." O'Connor, who died of lupus at the age of thirty-nine, left behind this masterpiece that is an immortal classic in the American literary world and even the world's literary world.

"Dark Paths" is a self-selected collection written by Bunin, the first Russian Nobel Prize winner in literature, in his later years. The main theme is love. It is divided into three parts, with a total of 37 articles. Most of the works in this collection were written during a period of turmoil in Europe, from 1937 to 1944. Bunin refused to cooperate with the occupying forces and preferred to live a life of poverty, suffering from homesickness and illness. He kept writing at his desk day and night, and finally completed this masterpiece of "Encyclopedia of Love". "This love collection not only demonstrates the diversity and uniqueness of Bunin's writing style as a writer with great rhetorical characteristics, but also provides a profound and comprehensive reminder of people's reflection in the "mirror" of love. Love is the eternal content of human life, so this collection of novellas is timeless and attracts generations of readers.

Chekhov's novels, the master of short stories, are compact and concise, concise and concise. A touch of humor is often intertwined with bitter irony, giving readers room for independent thinking. He is good at exploring beyond the surface of life and revealing the hidden motives of characters, leaving behind such classic works as "The Chameleon", "Death of a Civilian" and "The Man in the Trap". "Selected Short Stories of Chekhov" collects Chekhov's most representative short stories, focusing on the artistic characteristics of the author's creation. This "Classic Curriculum" series version of "Selected Chekhov's Short Stories" will also include a special curriculum design to make it more suitable for young people to understand and read.

"In Spring, Going to See Someone" is a classic of Shen Congwen's beautiful and innocent novels, with the latest illustrations in a hardcover collector's edition. Exclusively includes Shen Congwen's sketches of Xiangxi and Lin Tian's full-color illustrations with the theme of "Spring Meeting", which has a unique youthful and modern flavor. 12 Novels, 12 innocent and kind people. A life form that is healthy, natural, and not contrary to human nature. Read this book and learn about beauty and love, thereby opening the door to your own life, letting deep feelings enter your heart, and moving forward.

Each novel in "Glass Rose" has clear clues, clean writing, and clever structure. It starts from the opportunity of the story itself without presupposing the theme. The protagonists of these novels include company executives, white-collar workers of foreign companies, expatriates in Shanghai, college students, as well as regular customers of small cafes, brokers, migrant workers, escort girls, etc. The eight stories observe and construct Shanghai from different perspectives. From the city center to the suburbs, from the financial center office buildings to the tram cafes, from reality to virtual reality, Shanghai is nothing more than a place where people from all walks of life live together to pursue a future. Every life has the right and opportunity to survive and prosper. For example, "Glass Rose" tells the story of an Italian young man's romantic encounter and true love in Shanghai. Shanghai is a place where foreigners and foreigners are mixed. Different values ​​determine the different life trajectories of Shanghai people. Human love and desire are like the wind and flow, causing people to have uncontrollable pain and regret. Human nature is similar, but takes on different shapes in different times and places. "No Fragrance to Know" tells the story of the friendship and different emotional choices of two college students since their college days. After graduation, their life paths separated by oceans reunited at this moment. It has nothing to do with right or wrong, but it can bring people deep spiritual shock and reflection. "Oil Field in the Suburbs" writes that someone claimed to have discovered an oil field in the suburbs of Shanghai. This ignorant lie was packaged in layers by professional promoters and consultants, causing trouble in the stock market and causing many people to lose their money. Why do so many people get scammed? The stories included in "Glass Rose" strive to give this world a question that it cannot answer suddenly.

There are five volumes in the illustrated series of single volumes of Lu Xun's works: "The Scream", "New Stories", "Morning Blossoms Picked Up at Dusk", "Wandering" and "Weeds". It is the series of Lu Xun's works with the widest readership. This book is one of them. There were multiple illustrators in the original series, and their styles were not uniform, and some even included photos. For the sake of overall standardization and unification, we plan to use the illustrations of Qiu Sha, Wang Weijun and Qiu Dali to update this version series. Qiu Sha is a well-known illustrator of Lu Xun's works. His expression techniques are both Chinese and Western. Since the 1970s, he has been highly praised by senior Lu Xun researchers. Japan's Iwanami Shoten has published a complete collection of his works. This book uses 27 new illustrations by Qiu Sha, Wang Weijun and Qiu Dali.

A collection of representative novels by writers who laid the foundation for the development of Soviet literature. Most of the contents of this book are translated into Chinese and published as a book for the first time. "The Beautiful But Rough World" is a collection of Platonov's novels, which includes five novels: "Epifan Sluice", "Ether Passage", "Station Village", "Happy Moskva" and "The Beautiful But Rough World". Except for "The Beautiful But Rough World", they are all translated and introduced to Chinese readers for the first time. These five novels belong to Platonov's three artistic stages respectively. The themes range from science fiction to history and finally return to reality, showing the changes in the writer's thoughts throughout his creative career. "Ether Channel" is a concrete depiction of the "future new world". This new world is not impossible to achieve materially. The real problem lies in how to find the channel in the spiritual world. So the writer extended his brush to history and created "Yepifan Water Gate" and "Station Village", using "historical reality" to think about the roots of the people's spiritual home and explore the methods of transformation of the spiritual world. "Happy Moskva" is an attempt to integrate spirituality and materiality in the new world. However, after a long period of exploration, the final result is the tranquility of reality, and the transformation of the spiritual world is still difficult to achieve. "Beautiful and Rough World" takes the tranquility of reality as its starting point and shows the huge gap between the real world and the "future new world" through the positional relationship between people and society.

Do you use your childhood to heal your whole life, or do you use your whole life to heal your childhood? What would you do if you had the chance to go back to your childhood? This is a collection of novels that tells the story of ten painful adults and their painful pasts. A retired kindergarten director founded an "adult kindergarten" specifically for adults. There are various students with psychological problems in the kindergarten, as well as "children" who cannot adapt to the adult world: there are young mothers with a three-year-old child, there are stay-at-home men in their twenties, office workers in their thirties who were suddenly laid off, and even a sixty-five-year-old retired man... In the special kindergarten, everyone rediscovers their childhood self here, faces their inner trauma, and lives their true self again. Of course, the pain in our hearts does not all come from childhood, nor does it all come from our parents or someone, but there must be a reason. These little bits of pain that are seen clearly are the same as the scars we get from falling and knocking our heads when we were young, and the arthritis caused by not wearing long johns when we were young. They are real diseases and not something to be ashamed of. Don't be anxious, don't be depressed, there are many ways to treat yourself. Once you begin to understand, you are already the best version of yourself.

"Stories of Petersburg" is a series of seven works written by Gogol in the 1830s and 1840s. It is named because the stories all take place in Petersburg. Another main line of this series of works is that the protagonists of the stories are all minor characters. This collection of novels contains seven works: "Nevsky Prospekt", "The Nose", "Portrait", "Coat", "Carriage", "Diary of a Madman" and "Rome", which express the writer's more mature worldview and literary outlook. Chinese readers are more familiar with "The Jacket" and "Diary of a Madman". Reading under the two major theme frameworks of Petersburg and Little People is more helpful in grasping the writer's view of literary creation. Gogol's three novels form a set of readings, which is conducive to a centralized grasp of Gogol's literary concepts and creative characteristics.

This book compiles and selects Fei Ming's representative works such as "The Story of the Bamboo Forest", "Taoyuan" and "Ling Dang". The novels of this period are based on local memories and realism. The influence of foreign literature is combined with the local regional color, just like making a reed flute out of simple green bamboo. These novels describe rural life, with a dilute style, detailed scene descriptions, and rich poetic artistic conception. With condensed and endless charm of writing, they outline a pastoral picture full of poetry, youthfulness, and the misery of life hidden in the patriarchal countryside. The novel hides its emotional tendencies and highlights the artistic conception of quiet poetry. What constitutes the "eyes" of this quiet artistic conception is the language expressed in the work, which concisely and ethereally expresses the intuition and epiphany about nature and life.

"Mirgrad", first published in 1835, is Gogol's second anthology of novels and the sequel to "Nights in the Countryside". This novel collective includes four works in total: "Old-Style Landlord", "Taras Bulba", "Vi" and "The Story of the Quarrel between Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich". These works are full of strong folklore flavor, describing the charming scenery and vivid life of Ukraine, and discovering truths that can shock the soul in daily life. Gogol's three novels form a set of readings, which is conducive to a centralized grasp of Gogol's literary concepts and creative characteristics.

First published in 1829, "Dykonka Nights" is Gogol's first anthology of novels and the first collection of novels that established the writer's position in the history of Russian literature. It includes eight works: "Saudinsky Market", "St. John's Eve", "May Night", "The Lost Credentials", "Christmas Eve", "Terrible Revenge", "Ivan Fedorovich Shpanka and His Aunt" and "The Devil's Land". Most of these works are based on Ukrainian folklore, reflecting the people's lives and historical events in Ukraine, and revealing the thematic features and descriptive features that will appear in "Dead Souls" in the future. Gogol's three novels form a set of readings, which is conducive to a centralized grasp of Gogol's literary concepts and creative characteristics.

The "Pastoral Trilogy" contains three pastoral novels by the 19th-century French romantic novelist George Sand: "The Enchanted Marsh," "Little Fadette" and "The Outcast François." "The Enchanted Marsh" is the first pastoral novel written by George Sand when he secluded himself in his own manor in Nohant. It tells the story of farmer Germain and his neighbor little Marie walking together and falling in love with each other. This group of pastoral works based on rural life depicts simple and peaceful pastoral scenery, and eulogizes the innocent love between young men and women that transcends social class and the gap between rich and poor. With its bright and cheerful atmosphere, innocent and simple style, and the consistent awareness of social equality, it has won the love of many readers.

The creation of short stories and short stories runs through Sienkiewicz's entire literary career. "Selected Novels and Novels of Sienkiewicz" selects more than ten short stories and short stories from the more than sixty short stories he wrote throughout his life. They all take real life as the main content and are full of strong emotional color. These works are not only an important part of Sienkiewicz's creations, but also treasures in world literature. They are widely circulated in countries around the world and are loved by readers. "Yanko the Musical" and "Angel" reflect the tragic fate of Polish rural children, and the former was selected into Chinese textbooks. "Charcoal Sketch" and "Memories of a Tutor" reflect the darkness of Tsarist Russia's rule at that time and the tragic fate of the people. "The Lighthouse Keeper" tells the story of Polish exiles and was introduced to the country by Lu Xun in the early 20th century.

Zweig is a world-renowned master of psychological novels. "Letter from a Strange Woman" includes Zweig's "Letter from a Strange Woman", "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life", "Women and the Earth", "The Governess" and other masterpieces of short and medium-length novels with the theme of female emotions. The translators of "Letter from a Strange Woman" are German literary translators such as Zhang Yushu, Zhang Penggao, Pan Zili, and Zhang Rongchang. Their translation is faithful and smooth, and conveys the charm of the original work very well. Zweig is a German-language writer loved by Chinese readers. 2022 Marks the 80th anniversary of his death. This book is released as a commemoration of him.

Zweig is a world-renowned master of psychological novels. This book is planned to be included in Zweig's popular short and medium-sized novels such as "Fear", "Emotional Chaos", "The Story of Chess", "Mendel the Used Bookseller", "The Sinking of the Heart" and "Invisible Pressure". These works deeply portray the psychology of the characters, especially the subconscious. The translators Zhang Yushu, Zhao Dengrong, Pan Zili, Zhang Rongchang, and Hu Qiding are all well-known German literary translators in China. Their translations are faithful and smooth and convey the charm of the original work very well. Zweig is a German-language writer loved by Chinese readers. 2022 Marks the 80th anniversary of his death. This book is released as a commemoration of him.

This book includes the "Reconciliation Trilogy" - "Otsu Junkichi", "Reconciliation" and "The Death of a Man and His Sister", Naoya Shiga's autobiographical masterpiece. This book is a must-read for modern Japanese literature and is published in simplified Chinese for the first time.

This book is a carefully compiled collection of Naoya Shiga's short story masterpieces, including seventeen immortal masterpieces from different periods of his creative career, including "In Kinosaki", "Walking to the Net", "Van's Crime", "Seibei and the Gourd", "The God of the Apprentice", "Grey Moon", etc., Which comprehensively demonstrates the style of his short story creation.

The Golden Sparrow Award for Short Novels is the highest award in China's short fiction circle and one of the most influential and important literary awards in the contemporary literary world. "Selected Anthology of Short Novel Golden Sparrow Award-winning Writers" selects outstanding works by Golden Sparrow Award-winning writers. The works are all short novels of about 1,500 words. Many well-known domestic publications such as "People's Literature", "Reader", "Youth Digest", "Youth Expo", etc. Have reprinted the articles. "Name My Bird" is a collection of works by Song Yizhu, winner of the Golden Sparrow Award for short novels. In 2007, Song Yizhu won the first place among the top ten in the country in the "National Novel Rookie Competition" of the Little Novel Writers Network, and won the reputation of "No. 1" Among nearly a thousand contestants. In 2021, he won the 9th National Golden Sparrow Award for Novel with ten works including "Cheongsam", winning the highest award in the industry. Song Yizhu's works are deeply influenced by senior writers such as Wang Zengqi. His narrative skills are stable and consistent, his words are sonorous and his stories are warm and emotional. He is especially praised by his peers in the industry.

"Black Sheep and White Soup" is a representative collection of works by Golden Sparrow Award winner Zhao Wenhui. All selected works have been reprinted in various selected journals and included in authoritative annual anthologies. He has won the 1st Henan Provincial Literature Award, the 2nd Du Fu Literature Award and the Bing Xin Book Award. The content of this book consists of two parts: the rural areas of northern Henan series and the catering people's notes series. These novels are well-written, firstly, they are rubbish, and secondly, they have stories. The author has a precise and accurate description of the current rural areas and catering industry in northern Henan. Each vivid character is ready to emerge, either so kind that people will be moved by it, or so bad that people want to pull them out of the book and kick them in the feet. Behind the hustle and bustle, we can read the bitterness of life from time to time, as well as the fragrance of local life and the happiness brought by hard work.

The Golden Sparrow Award for Short Novels is the highest award in China's short fiction circle and one of the most influential and important literary awards in the contemporary literary world. "Selected Anthology of Short Novel Golden Sparrow Award-winning Writers" selects outstanding works by Golden Sparrow Award-winning writers. The works are all short novels of about 1,500 words. Many well-known domestic publications such as "People's Literature", "Reader", "Youth Digest", "Youth Expo", etc. Have reprinted the articles. "Notes on Juqiu Mountain" selects more than 100 short novels by writer Xing Qingjie that reflect various situations in the world. The writer has been engaged in literary creation for 30 years and has published more than 20 collections of literary works. Some collections of works have been republished and reprinted many times and enjoy a good reputation among readers. The works included in this book unfold vivid pictures of life with the northern Shandong region as the background, telling unforgettable stories and depicting vivid characters. It is a novel with excellent readability and artistry.

"The Distance between Us and Evil" is a representative collection of works by Xiao Jianguo, winner of the Golden Sparrow Award. The book collects more than 60 excellent short stories by Xiao Jianguo. In the book, the author Xiao Jianguo uses a realistic creative tone to create characters while rejecting conceptualization and facial expression. The overall story is rigorously arranged, the plot progression is clear and layered, and the characters' speech and behavior are very individual. The creative attitude is sincere and touching, the writing rhythm is clear, and the twists and turns of the plot and the strength of the ending are emphasized. The story is suspenseful, meaningful, and burdensome. Between the lines, a high-spirited force of justice rises. The true knowledge of life and the world is expressed through words, which can resonate strongly with readers.

"Ancient Jade" is a self-selected collection of short stories by Lu Taosheng. Lu Taosheng is the winner of the Golden Sparrow Award for short novels, the Hundred Flowers Award and the Bing Xin Prose Award of Novel Monthly. His works are close to reality, pay attention to reflection and awareness, pursue the spirit of enlightenment, have ancient intentions, legendary stories, vivid characters, surprising plots, insight into the world and people's hearts, convey warm feelings, and have a steady writing style. Through the stories of the past, he expresses the philosophy of life and the true feelings of the world, and directly points to the people's hearts in the world. The book contains works that won the 2020 "Most Readers' Popular Award" from "Selected Novels". The award citation stated: "Lu Taosheng is an upright and sincere writer. In decades of literary creation, he has established his own unique and distinctive artistic language, and used the exquisite art form of micro-novel to defend the lofty value of human beings."

"Waiting" is a self-selected collection by Dai Tao, winner of the 9th Golden Sparrow Award. It contains a total of 92 short stories selected by the author. These short stories basically reflect the entire process of Dai Tao's short novel creation since the mid-1980s. Judging from Dai Tao's experience, he joined a team in the countryside, went to college after college, graduated as a prosecutor, went to work as a boss, and then became a lawyer and arbitrator. These experiences have undoubtedly contributed to the richness and diversity of his creative themes. As some critics have commented, his novels show us all kinds of human beings. And among the various characters in this world, whether officials or civilians, men or women, law enforcers or law enforcers, almost all have their own way of being a human being, either using humanity to warm the world, or sensing and accepting this warmth. As mentioned in the Golden Sparrow Award speech: Dai Tao's works have a warm atmosphere and idealistic color, which can resonate with people spiritually.

"Half a Bridge" is a self-selected collection of works by Golden Mahjong Award winner Dai Zhisheng, which includes 70 short novels. "Half a Bridge" has the author's obvious style and logo: it uses Jiangnan customs and old events as its material, pays attention to the fate of the lower class people, insists on promoting traditional culture, and creates a Jiangnan literary town with honest social customs. Yang Xiaomin, an advocate of short novels, said: "His writing is pure and his diction is smooth, which is reflected in each short novel. He is like a wanderer looking for traces of memory, wandering in the long river of time, searching for ancient times, and meditating. The old streets are mottled, the old trees are dense, the years are peaceful, the sunlight is fleeting, and things remain the same. The mottled years carve out the bones and texture of the articles, quietly, and highlight the historical heritage of regional culture."

"The Boy on Horseback" is a self-selected collection by Wang Ruobing, winner of the 9th Golden Sparrow Award for Short Novels. It selects short novels written by the author in recent years. Wang Ruobing's writings mostly take love as the theme: the love of husband and wife, the love of parents, the love of friends, and even all kinds of warmth and love in the world, to name a few. She deeply penetrates the visual life and inner world of ordinary people, discovers and excavates the truth, goodness and beauty in the world, expresses and longs for the true beauty and tenderness in her heart, seeks strength in sadness and suffering, and achieves breakthroughs in reality and ideals. She has profound humanistic care and compassion. As stated in the award speech: Wang Ruobing's works reflect the past time and nostalgia, and the exotic stories he writes are full of human warmth in life, and are real and touching. The writing is smooth and delicate, beautiful and poignant. The romance and sentimentality of love are permeated between the lines, and it touches people's hearts because of the perseverance of love. He is good at using certain props or images to complete the shaping of characters, highlighting the warm expression of human nature and human feelings, making the novel a comfort to people's spirits and souls.

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories by the famous Austrian writer Zweig, including such masterpieces as "Letter from a Strange Woman" and "The Burning Secret". Zweig's novels have meticulous psychological descriptions, dramatic structures, and concise and beautiful language. The story tells the story of a lady from a distinguished family who had an unexplained adventure when she was forty-two years old. She was magically obsessed with the hand of a gambler in a casino and spent the night with him. This twenty-four-hour experience has been haunting her like a nightmare ever since, tormenting her until her later years.

The six stories based on ancient Japanese stories vividly show the ancient Japan written by the great writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke. When everyone only cheered for the moment when the hero ascended the altar, he offered blessings for every step of the hero's twilight years. He brought the dead bones sleeping in the dust of history back to life, and brought saints and villains to the stage at the same time. While laughing and cursing, his writing style was more compassionate than any preacher.

"Secret" is a classic collection of novels by Junichiro Tanizaki, a representative writer of Japanese aestheticism, including "Swastika", "Secret", "A Certain Motive for Crime" and other short and medium-sized novels. The novella "" uses the criss-cross meaning of the Japanese character "" to symbolize the intricate emotional relationship between two men and two women in the novel; the short stories "Secret" and "Some Motive for Crime" both have elements and colors of suspense reasoning. The former tells the story of "I" living in seclusion in a temple and the failure of pursuing "another world", while the latter is the psychological confession of a prisoner. The world of Tanizaki's novels is full of absurdity and weirdness, seeking beauty in ugliness, affirming goodness in praise, and thinking about the meaning of survival in death. The three novels all reflect Junichiro Tanizaki's aesthetic concepts very well and are permeated with his strong awareness of human emotions and psychology. Whether it is the Miyuki world that expresses demonism and "ugliness is beautiful", or the oriental culture that pursues Japanese classical beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki's works are permeated with a strong sense of human emotions and psychology. Yukio Mishima once evaluated Tanizaki Junichiro's works as "the peonies blooming brilliantly against the gloomy background of naturalistic literature".

This book is a collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson, the master of American short stories and queen of Gothic novels. It includes 21 of her most representative and well-known short stories. Many of his works have won literary awards, such as "The Lottery" (won the O. Henry Award in 1949), "Go Home, Louisa" (won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1961) and "The Possibility of Evil" (won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1966). In addition, many masterpieces such as "Come Dance with Me in Ireland" (1944), "Summer Man" (1951), "An Ordinary Day with Peanuts" (1956), "Slumber Party" (1964), etc. Have been selected into the "Best American Short Stories Annual". Shirley Jackson's novels often focus on the sudden falls that ordinary people encounter in gentle and familiar daily life, analyzing the dark side of human nature, and using irony to reveal the complex and sometimes chilling reality behind romantic fantasies.

The novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" is McCullers' masterpiece. It tells the story of a bizarre love triangle in a wild town in the south of the United States, between the wealthy, talented but withdrawn Miss Amelia, the hunchback cousin Raymond with unknown origins, and the bad ex-husband Marvin Macy, centered on a cafe transformed from a grocery store. It explores the unequal relationship between loving and being loved, the impact of environmental opportunities on talent, and the enlightenment of people's understanding in a limited life...

This book collects all of McCullers' short stories, 20 in total, fully demonstrating his unique and exquisite short story narrative art. Most of the works choose to look at the adult world from the perspective of a teenager: from the piano room with tight strings, the strange and abandoned orphanage, to the noisy bars, and the country bus heading south; from the restless and gloomy music prodigy, to the confused girl on the hospital bed, To the solitary woman who spies and is spied on, to the ignorant young man in the parade... These young souls who have experienced the world's astringency, the pain of growing up, and even the shadow of the writer himself are looking for the next exit in life amidst escape and abandonment, hesitation and loneliness. Its inspirations and themes intersect with McCullers's full-length works: the alienation of marginalized people, the subtle interpersonal emotions between different races, etc.

The "Collection of Works of Nobel Prize-winning Masters" contains representative works of fifteen Nobel Prize-winning writers, with a total of 19 categories and 20 volumes of works. Spanning a century and two world wars, Tagore, Romain Rolland, Thomas Mann, Hesse, Gide, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Hemingway, Camus, Pasternak, Goldin, Brodsky, Oe Kenzaburo, Modiano, and Kazuo Ishiguro will give you a window into the century-long history of the Nobel Prize. The set includes "Selected Lyrical Poems of Rabindranath Tagore", "Biographies", "Death in Venice", "The Glass Bead Game", "Dostoyevsky", "Murder in the Cathedral", "The Predator", "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Myth of Sisyphus", "Doctor Zhivago (Part 1 and 2)" and "Lord of the Flies" "Watermark: Souls in Venice", "Notes on Okinawa", "Respite" and five works by Kazuo Ishiguro, the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature - "Shadows of Distant Mountains", "Painter of the Floating World", "Inconsolable", "Serenade: Five Stories of Music and Dusk" and "The Buried Giant".

This book selects Maupassant's most representative short and medium stories, including popular masterpieces such as "The Necklace" and "My Uncle Jules", as well as the twists and turns of "The Olive Garden" and "Pierrot". "The Necklace" uses a necklace as a clue to unfold the story. The layout is unconventional and has been included in middle school Chinese textbooks; "My Uncle Jules" reveals and satirizes the alienation of relationships between people in class society. Maupassant was good at cutting out typical fragments from ordinary and trivial things, and summarizing the reality of life with small insights. His novels have unique conceptions, ups and downs of plots, vivid and detailed descriptions, and lifelike characters, which make people have endless aftertaste after reading them.

This set of books is part of the Plantagenet and Tudor series, including: The River Daughter, The Kingmaker's Daughter, The Red Queen, The White Princess, The Eternal Princess, The Queen's Fool, The Last Tudor, The Boleyn Legacy, The King's Curse, Three Sisters and Three Queens, and The Taming of the Queen, a total of 11 volumes. Focusing on the British royal women in the late Middle Ages, writing "her history" from a first-person perspective, and comprehensively showing the disputes behind the "War of the Roses" and "Tudor Dynasty".

"Mirror of the Future" In just five years, Chinese science fiction has undergone many profound changes, one of which is the change in the exchange model of Chinese and foreign science fiction. In the past many years, although we have understood quite a few classics in Western science fiction, Western countries have extremely limited understanding of Chinese science fiction. Whether at the World Science Fiction Convention in the United States or at the international science fiction convention in China, the exchanges between Chinese and foreign science fiction writers rarely focus on a certain Chinese science fiction novel. Things are different now. There are more and more common topics among Chinese and foreign science fiction writers and scholars, such as "The Three-Body Problem" and "Beijing Folding". The communication model between Chinese science fiction and Western science fiction has changed from one-way to two-way. "Future Mirror II" This book collects seven top Chinese science fiction works, providing readers who love science fiction works with different science fiction experiences. Among them, most of the works have won domestic Galaxy Awards, Nebula Awards or been nominated. The translation of this book is completed by a top-notch translation team led by Liu Yukun, the translator of "The Three-Body Problem" and "Beijing Folding" and winner of the Hugo Award, presenting you with the beauty of bilingualism.

It includes two novellas: "Pink Bus" and "I Had Many Dreams Last Night". "Pink Bus" uses delicate writing to directly face the inner feelings of pregnant women, the mental journey of worrying about gains and losses, and the hesitation and struggle when facing choices. "I Had Many Dreams Last Night" mainly expresses the author's thoughts on death and insights on life through the description of the characters - death is the continuation of life; life is the flourishing of death.

This book selects short stories from "The Way of Japanese Women", including "Wind Chimes", "Pine Blossoms", "Arrow Bamboo", "Plum Blossom" and other excellent works. It is a collection of short stories focusing on women's life and psychology, focusing on family, love and family. Touching the patched clothes, he noticed another side of his leisurely wife; in order to inherit his wife's regrets, she began a life of 23 years of aphasia; when her husband's life and death were uncertain but criticized, waiting for the truth became her only hope... They were either diligent and thrifty, or moving forward with a heavy burden, or being patient and persevering, shining in the subtle places in life that are not easy to detect.

This book was written by the blogger Sweet Planet Daily. As Weibo's well-known "collection of super sweet stories", Sweet Planet Daily has selected all high-quality and moving stories that have been submitted in recent years and compiled them into a book. Among these stories, there are lovers reunited after a long separation, childhood sweethearts' heartbeats, the beauty of sudden encounters, and regrettable misses... But without exception, these stories are true and touching. All the stories in this book have received more than 6 billion exposures online, and countless readers have checked in to catch up on updates.