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This book is Nabokov's third novel. It tells the story of a chess genius who gradually became insane due to his long-term addiction to the game. The protagonist Luzhin was an unattractive, withdrawn and melancholic child when he was a child. He was like a mystery to his parents and the object of ridicule by his classmates. Real life always made him anxious, so he used chess as a refuge from real life. It turned out that he was a chess genius and became a chess master. However, he also paid a price for this: the game of chess gradually replaced his real life. In one game, his carefully designed defensive strategy became worthless due to the opponent's unexpected move. This reality made his mental world finally collapse.

This book is Nabokov's first novel, which embodies the themes of youth's first love and homesickness in exile. The story describes the evil officer Ganin who was exiled in Berlin. From a neighbor's photo, he discovered that the neighbor's waiting wife Mashenka turned out to be his first love in middle school. In the following days, Ganin kept reminiscing about his past and the good times he spent with his loved ones. Time then set the neighbor's alarm clock to pick up Mashenka on his behalf, hoping to rekindle the old relationship with Mashenka. However, while waiting for the bus, Ganin suddenly realized that today's Mashenka is someone else's wife, and no matter how nostalgic the past was, it is gone forever. Finally, Ganin boarded another train and left Berlin to start a new life in France.

"Invitation to the Beheading" is a masterpiece of dystopian novels by the outstanding American novelist Nabokov. It shows the bizarre illusion of the irrational world and satirizes the Kafkaesque black comedy tragedy of totalitarian rule. It is a novel worth reading by everyone.

"Laughter in the Dark" was written in Berlin in 1932 under the title "Camera Obscura". It was published in Paris and Berlin. It was translated into English by Way Loy in 1936 and published in London under its original name. In 1938, it was significantly revised and re-translated by Nabokov himself and published in New York under the name "Laughter in the Dark". The novel imitates the kind of cheap love triangle stories popular in movies in the 1920s and 1930s. It uses the movie as its title at the beginning to introduce the relationship between the main characters. The actor Obinus wants to use the new technique of animation to "animate" the paintings of ancient masters, and proposes to cooperate with the caricature painter Rex. Obinas fell in love with the theater usher Margot at first sight. Margot, who was "obsessed with watching movies," dreamed of becoming a movie star. When she was convinced that he belonged to a class that could "provide the conditions for her to be on stage and screen," she decided to associate with him. The banquet hosted by Obinas to entertain the stars creates an opportunity for Margot to reunite with her former lover Rex, thus forming a triangle relationship until the novel ends in tragedy.

Nabokov began writing "Despair" in Russian in Berlin in 1932, and serialized it in a Russian exile publication in Paris, France two years later; at the end of 1936, Nabokov rewrote the novel in English, making it his first English novel created for "artistic purposes." In this novel, Nabokov conducted a fruitful exploration of the psychological operating mechanism of mass society. In Nabokov's view, the crazy pursuit of identity is the source of despair for unique individuals in mass society.

This book is a reference book for cultivating taste. It summarizes the contents of the 1st to 48th award-winning novels from 1969 to 2016 since the establishment of the "Booker Prize". It uses concise and general words to briefly describe the essence of these award-winning English novels, so that students can read them at will. Looking at the path of studying at home and abroad in ancient and modern times, there are generally two paths: specialization and extensive reading. At that time, Mr. Liang Rengong (Qichao) also said when answering a reporter's question about reading from "Tsinghua Weekly": "Learning is essential and specialization must be supplemented by extensive reading."

This is a quiet, tranquil and wise book. In analyzing life and criticizing customs, the language is astonishing, the words are sparkling, the insights are unique and thought-provoking. Many pages are vivid descriptions, beautiful and detailed, like the purity and transparency of lakes, and the dense greenness of mountains and forests; there are also some pages that are thorough and insightful. Give people inspiration. This is a fresh, healthy, and uplifting book with extremely moving descriptions of spring and dawn. Here we have the clean air provided by nature without the environmental pollution caused by industrial society. Reading it, readers will naturally feel the purity of the soul and the sublimation of the spirit.

In this novel, McEwan describes a ferocious and mysterious "animal" that is darker than the night, with red eyes, like burning coals, coveting the remains of dying European civilization, and devouring reforms and beliefs. The bottom line of morality, grasping the Achilles heel of civilization, trying to reverse the nature of good and evil - a typical McLean black, on the stage haunted by ghost black dogs, violence, true love, evil, redemption, interpreting a thrilling fable about our times.

Like McEwan's other novels in recent years, "Sweet Tooth" is the kind of work whose plot is particularly closely aligned with the era in which it is set. As the only "female literary youth" in the Five Divisions who is keen on reading novels, and who "happens" to have a figure and appearance that seems to have come directly from a novel, Selina accepted a special task: "Operation Sweet Tooth" aims to indirectly and covertly fund writers who are ideologically aligned with British interests and have influence on the public. The person Selina is responsible for approaching and luring them to join is the only novelist in this operation, Tom Haley. Tom and Serena fell in love with each other, and they loved each other step by step, they loved each other true and false, and they survived desperate situations. But if you guess the beginning, you may not be able to guess the end.

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"Amsterdam" is the 1998 Booker Prize-winning work, an extremely exquisite McEwan masterpiece. Two good friends meet at a funeral for the dead woman they once shared. They could not imagine that this charming woman would have relations with two other conservative and vulgar dignitaries during her lifetime. Deeply deploring the pain she suffered before her death, they reached an agreement: if one could not live with dignity, the other could end his life at any time.

"Only Love Strangers" is a highly skilled short novel, a masterpiece of the "Horrible Ian" period. It focuses on exploring the infinite possibilities of human desire and tells a story about how a pursuer of beauty destroys the object of beauty to death in order to satisfy his own desires. A pair of lovers who are inseparable but seem to be inseparable are on vacation. From the first day they entered this bustling but weird tourist city, they have been followed and secretly photographed. The eyes in the dark follow each other like a shadow, tempting the lovers to seek fresh excitement and solace from so-called strangers, and ultimately make them devote themselves wholeheartedly to a trap of lust and death that is deliberately set for them. The novel contains countless metaphors, is highly intertextual with many classic texts, and is full of meaningful quotations or parodies of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" and E. M. Forster's "A Room with a View." It is known as one of McEwan's two "mini-masterpieces."

The original movie "Atonement" was rated 8.4 On Douban, starring James McAvoy, Kate Knightley, Saoirse Ronan, and Benedict Cumberbatch. In the summer of 1935, Briony, a 13-year-old girl from a well-off British family, had just begun to try writing and had a rich imagination. One day, she secretly discovered that there was an affair between the housekeeper's son, Robbie Turner, and her sister, Cecilia. Briony's rich imagination invented all kinds of terrible things and imagined them. When her cousin Lola was raped, Briony arbitrarily determined that he was the criminal and testified against him, and Robbie was imprisoned. But Cecilia, who firmly believed that Robbie was innocent, did not hesitate to sever ties with her family and fell in love with him persistently. "Atonement" is the representative work of British writer Ian McEwan. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama Film and the original novel of the same name, and the British Booker Award nomination.

Parallel Worlds: The Neanderthal Trilogy. Primitive people (translated by Niu Zhenyu), humans (translated by Xia Xing), and hybrids (translated by Dai Yuan). In another parallel world, Neanderthals lived. Neanderthals reached a level comparable to ours in culture and science, but their development history, social customs and philosophy of life were completely different from ours. Ponte Budit, a Neanderthal physicist, accidentally crossed the passage between two worlds and came to a completely unfamiliar world. After he was identified as a Neanderthal, he was isolated and studied, feeling very lonely and helpless. But here, he still found friends who shared weal and woe, and developed a special relationship with Mary Vaughn, a Canadian female geneticist.

"Don't Lose, Never Forget" is a dystopian science fiction novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize and the American Book Critics Circle Award. In Hailsham School, deep in the English countryside, three good friends, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, grew up here. They were carefully cared for by their tutors and received a good education in poetry and art. However, Hailsham, which seems like a paradise, hides many secrets. After the three Caseys grew up, they gradually discovered that the beautiful growth process in their memories was full of untraceable confusion and terrifying question marks...

"Between the Beds" is McEwan's second collection of short stories after "First Love, Last Rites". It is the writer's most famous work and contains a total of 7 short stories, which are exquisite, sharp and gloomy. It describes the loneliness of the deformed in front of the world, the pervert's confusion about life, and the revenge of the twisted on the world. It is incredible but extremely brave, and it is getting closer to the truth that people refuse to see. An out-and-out masterpiece of "Horrible Ian".

"The Grapes of Wrath" is the masterpiece of Steinbeck, the famous American writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature. The novel tells the story of a large number of farmers who went bankrupt and fled during the economic panic in the United States in the 1930s. The writer once followed farmers in Oklahoma as they wandered to California, and what he saw along the way shocked him. With his realistic writing style, he detailedly and thoroughly displayed that unforgettable special period in American history. As soon as the work came out, it caused panic among the powerful elites in various states at that time. Many states banned the publication of the novel. None of this can change the huge influence of "The Grapes of Wrath". To this day, it still occupies an unshakable and important position in the history of modern American literature.

Graham Greene divides his works into two categories: "serious novels" and "pleasure novels". "The Power and the Glory" is one of the most famous "serious novels" and one of Green's most highly praised by experts and readers. It is based on the two months the author spent in Mexico in March and April 1938. Five weeks of these two months were spent alone and exhausted traveling between Tabasco and Chiapas in the south for two weeks. Containing un-British Roman Catholic elements while being steeped in Manichean darkness and a faithful depiction of suffering, it can be called Green's most ambitious work.

"The Age of Innocence" is the representative work of the famous American writer Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The film of the same name is directed by Martin Scorsese and stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder and others. The main plot of the book takes place in the upper class society of New York in the late 1870s and early 1880s. It was the place where Wharton spent her childhood and youth, where she grew up, entered society, became engaged and disengaged, and then married Edward Wharton of Boston, where she spent the first few years of her marriage. Forty years later, as a novelist, she looks back at the society that raised her and restrained her. Her feelings are complex, with both cordial attachment and sober criticism.

The full name of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Tristram, Gentleman" is "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Tristram, Gentleman", but there is no detailed life story of the protagonist in the book, nor his profound insights. The novel starts with "reviewing" his own conception in the mother's body, and most of the novel uses Tristram's mouth to tell the lives and opinions of others, mainly his father and his uncle. As for Tristram's life, there are only a few infrequent mentions of Tristram's life. The order of narration is a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, which completely breaks the chronological order of narration, and only follows the order in which events enter the narrator's mind.

Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American writer who was recognized as an outstanding novelist and stylist in the twentieth century. "Lolita", which he wrote in 1955, received great controversy and honors. "The Prototype of Laura" is Nabokov's unfinished work and the last manuscript in his later years. The novel tells the story of Philip Wilde, an extremely bloated scholar who married Flora, a slender, beautiful but promiscuous ballet dancer. On the one hand, he had to endure his wife's lies and betrayal, and on the other hand, he was addicted to the pleasure of self-destruction.

"Silent Spring" is the masterpiece of American female writer Rachel Carson and one of the most influential books in the world in the past 50 years! In Silent Spring, Carson describes in detail and in detail the huge and irreversible harm caused to our environment by the widespread use of pesticides represented by DDT with the vivid writing style unique to female writers. Not only that, Carson also sharply pointed out that the deep root of environmental problems lies in human beings' arrogance and ignorance of nature. Therefore, she called on people to re-correct their attitude towards nature and rethink the development path of human society.

"Animal Farm" is one of Orwell's best works. It is a profound anti-Utopia political allegory. A group of animals on the farm successfully carried out a "revolution", driving their exploitative human masters out of the farm and establishing an equal animal society. However, the animal leaders, those smart pigs, eventually usurped the fruits of the revolution and became more authoritarian and totalitarian rulers than their human counterparts.

This book contains a total of thirteen short stories and short stories by Akutagawa. "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thus showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying for the first time the author's understanding of people, his helplessness and despair. There is a mountain of books and a sea of ​​barnyards, and a garden of literature and history. I sink and play in it, and the hook is not hidden, and it is written in a day. It comes naturally at random, randomly, vertically and horizontally, and cannot be suppressed. From the high-ranking officials in the temple to the ordinary people in the city, from the depths of Zichen to the fate of the rivers and lakes, everything he writes about comes immediately and leaps onto the page. Akutagawa is sensitive by nature. Generally speaking, he does not focus on description but focuses on exploration. He pays little attention to narration and focuses on enlightenment. He is less light and unrestrained and more depressed and desolate. This is easily evident from his works.

How many bodies does a person have? Perhaps we have all heard, and many people believe, that people have more than one body. People can be separated, resurrected, and reincarnated. In addition to the flesh and blood body, humans also have a spiritual body, which is called a "spiritual body" in the Bible. Pavich tells us at the beginning of the novel that he has passed away. After his death, he (his second body) told us a story of a double body.

2003 was a turning point in my life. Everyone who knew me thought that I had become more cheerful and confident. I think it all comes down to my school and the loving and encouraging atmosphere there. I try to recall and record every detail of my life in that year, and share it with everyone, so that people around me can know that there is such a different life in another corner of the world. This is also a coming-of-age ceremony for myself, to commemorate the year when I grew vigorously, and to remind myself that I must face challenges and unknowns as bravely as I did that year in the future. From that year on, I began to use my holidays to travel or study abroad, and visited some countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Every trip brings different experiences and thoughts, and I collect them together. "Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles." After reading and traveling, I still have the accumulation of my own writing as part of my growth.

In the picturesque countryside of London, five strangers rushed to rescue a hot air balloon accident. However, perhaps it was just a moment of hesitation and selfishness that led to the death of a living person right in front of their eyes. The fragility and perishability of life ignites the protagonist's crazy and persistent love, which also leads to complete chaos and disorder in the world of the other two people. In this book, McEwan, whose creations have matured and become better, uses a detailed presentation of a spiritual crisis and a mental illness to seriously and profoundly explore the infinite possibilities, fragility and helplessness of human emotions, emotions, consciousness and even human nature itself.

After World War II, Leonard, a young British electronic engineer, was sent to Germany to participate in British-American cooperation in intelligence projects. Post-war Berlin was devastated, but the kind and simple Leonard met the beautiful and gentle German woman Maria here, and was involved in a crazy world full of love and sex. Just when the two were inseparable, an accidental murder finally caused the two to pass each other by each other, regretting it for the rest of their lives. This is a romance during the Cold War, a spy war after World War II, and a thrilling criminal psychological novel... As always, McEwan perfectly blends elements such as love, war, suspense, crime, sex, and black humor. What he writes is a desolate and desperate Berlin city, where pure and innocent people have no place to stay, and fear and coldness surround them everywhere until they move into the endless night.

The story of "Saturday" takes place on Saturday, February 15, 2003. The protagonist of the story, Henri Perroin, is a successful man - a famous neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper lawyer, and has a harmonious relationship with his grown-up children. However, the situation in the world he lives in makes him worried - the war in Iraq is approaching, and the general gloom and pessimism are spreading from New York and Washington... On Saturday morning, Perroian passed through the thousands of anti-war demonstrations that filled the streets of London and rushed to play squash with the anesthesiologist. In a minor incident, he had a minor run-in with a thug named Baxter. Perroian relied on his professional sensitivity to see that this guy had a brain malfunction - he had encountered a mental patient. He wanted to get rid of Baxter as soon as possible, but he didn't know that Saturday's troubles would start from here and get out of control...

"The Concrete Garden" is one of McEwan's two "small masterpieces" and one of his most acclaimed masterpieces. This story told by a fifteen-year-old boy who was in the rebellious period of youth is indeed a bit sensational from a secular perspective. After their parents died one after another, the four children - Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom - were trapped in the cement garden like prisoners in the vast world, like survivors on an isolated island. In an isolated world, they interpret the conventional ethics between parents, brothers and sisters, and children, as well as stories that transcend ethics, are shocking yet reasonable.

The story of "On Chesil Beach" is set in the subtle early 1960s, when hippies were just beginning to learn debauchery, traditionalists were still strong, and "the era when it was impossible to talk about sexual troubles" had not yet come to an end. Edward and Florence's honeymoon dinner is uneasy, tense and full of misunderstandings. The love on the first night was never made. A whole book of delicate and silky words covers sex and love, but they are separated in their respective bodies and hearts. In the world of this book, he and she can never become one. McEwan's tender sketch looks back on the youthful years through the unique perspective of sexual concepts. It is delicate and gentle but full of power, which is both emotional and long-lasting.

This is McEwan's first book for children. It tells the story of the daydreams of a ten-year-old boy, Peter. Through seven carefully linked episodes, the grown-up Peter uncovers the mysterious journeys, transformations and adventures of his childhood. Living between dreams and reality, Peter experienced an unprecedented Metamorphosis... In the United Kingdom and the United States, "Peter the Dreamer" was published in the form of an illustrated children's book, while in many other countries, it was published in a more serious form for adults to read. McEwan once again demonstrates his boundless imagination - and a children's book written for adults is born.

Chasing the Sun is McEwan's most ambitious and controversial novel in recent years. Theoretical physicist Michael Beard, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics when he was young but has since been gradually reduced to an academic role, encountered family changes when he entered his twilight years: his fifth wife had an affair and openly had an affair with the home decorator. Beard never expected that things would get out of hand - in a typical "McEwan moment", love turns to blood, stealing turns to murder, and the story takes a sudden turn, which is both shocking and reasonable, reviving Beard's already doomed life chess game. The long-lost ideal light of "saving the earth" actually shined into the dark room of his soul again through a conspiracy that was both accidental and despicable - thus, the good, the bad, the abysmal, the ridiculous, were all forced to be exposed in front of the readers...

The origin of Junki Monogatari, the leader in historical novels, the quaint style, the way of the samurai, the ferocity of battle, and the beauty of human love. The full text of 600,000 words, Zhou Zuoren's unfinished work, finally came to the full picture after forty years of sharpening a sword. Lin Wenyue wrote and highly recommended it. The translation model "The Tale of the Heike" is a war-themed historical novel that has created many widely praised samurai models. In the history of Japanese literature, it is listed as two major story classics along with "The Tale of Genji", one literary and one martial, Chrysanthemum and Sword, which has a profound influence. The book narrates the sad process of the Heian Dynasty, when the Taira family and the Genji family were competing for the throne and enjoying all the glory, but whether the Taiji could survive, and each family was annihilated one after another. Reveals the principle that all actions are impermanent, and those who prosper will inevitably decline; the cause and effect of karma, human relationships, and principles are all contained in it. Under the concise and elegant stylistic layout, the outstanding characters, the extraordinary plot, the elegant behavior of the nobles, the chastity and death of the warriors, and the evocative female anecdotes are all touching. This book was written by Professor Zheng Qingmao, who has been deeply involved in Chinese and Chinese literature for 60 years. Based on the classic "Jue Yiben", it took many years to complete the Chinese translation and add detailed annotations. The translation is accompanied by precious color scrolls, chronology, genealogy, maps, etc. It is indeed a rigorously produced literary masterpiece.

Whenever you feel down, watch "John Christopher"! Nobel Prize in Literature classic masterpiece! Romain Rolland took 20 years to write it, and Fu Lei translated it twice and revised it six times, which took ten years. It is recognized as a superior standard for translation. Romain Rolland: "In this chaotic era of endless disasters, I hope that Christophe will become a strong and loyal friend, so that everyone can have the joy of life and love in their hearts, so that everyone can live and love regardless of everything!" Romain Rolland personally ordered four volumes in 1921. The first volume includes the life of Christophe as a boy (Dawn, Morning, Boy), describing the awakening of his senses and emotions. The second volume (Resistance, Festival) is written about Christophe's naive, arbitrary, extreme, and rampant crusade against the social and artistic lies of the time. The third volume (Antoinette, Indoors, Girlfriends) contrasts with the passion and hatred of the previous volume. It is a gentle and quiet atmosphere, a lament for friendship and pure love. The fourth volume (The Burning Bush, Fudan) is about the great difficulties in the middle of life. Almost everything is about to be destroyed, but the result still tends to a clear and lofty state, revealing the dawn of another world.

The book "The Conflict in Our Hearts" points out the problems we encounter when we are troubled by inner conflicts, and proposes practical methods to resolve conflicts, so that we can learn to deal with inner loneliness, madness, loss and love, gain inner integrity, maturity and peace, rebuild our self-confidence in life, and live more bravely and healthily. "The Gap: How to Resolve the Disappointment in Our Hearts" Please believe that anything in this world that can disappoint you is something you need to learn to face and overcome. Only by resolving and transcending the disappointment in your heart can you live a peaceful and powerful self. "Getting Along with the World This Way" is a fifteen-session life self-study course by Adler, the father of modern self-psychology, step by step to guide your mind to live in harmony with the world, get out of your lonely island, and find your ideal life state. The main theme of the book "The Law of Convexity: From Obscurity to Standing Out" is: "The Law of Convexity", a psychological law for efficient self-expression. "The Law of Convexity" can: tell you brilliant ideas and quick-win tricks - whether you need to be hired, promoted, invested, elected, signed a contract, understood... Lead you to win the life of your dreams.

The novel begins with the protagonist "Yuan" suddenly encountering his younger brother who has not heard from him for four years. The younger brother moved into the house rented by his older sister and started keeping a "sister's observation diary" every day. After reading it, my sister realized how boring her daily life was, purely "copying and pasting". So she decided to try to change the situation, fell in love with a friend of her younger brother, accepted an invitation from her colleagues to attend the New Year's Eve party, and slowly got out of the trouble of social phobia. Unfortunately, her boyfriend suddenly terminated their relationship at this time, which made her once again face the choice of whether to open her heart.

This is a record of the growth of "free woman" Anna, consisting of one story and five notebooks. The black notes represent her life as a writer, the red notes represent her political life, the yellow notes represent her love life, and the blue notes represent her spiritual life. The golden note is a philosophical expression and a summary of life. Its colorfulness reflects the protagonist's confused and weightless soul in this chaotic and disorderly world.

Edgar Allan Poe's novels are full of gorgeous imagination, grotesque and bizarre, shrouded in a fog of terror, and possess a unique mysterious charm. "The Murder in the Rue Mauger", "The Mystery of Marie Roget", "The Stealing of Letters" and "The Golden Beetle" tell the story of solving mysteries; "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Black Cat" are bizarre and weird stories, murder is not the focus, but the horrific artistic conception, the release of morbid emotions, and the unexpected ending are the focus; "The Remaining Life of the Maelstrom" tells the story of a sailor who was drawn into the maelstrom and almost died, but in the end It is a thrilling story of escaping from death; "Manuscript in a Bottle" is about being in danger on the tropical ocean and encountering a ghost ship; "William Wilson" is a profound and true story. The protagonist Wilson went to the same university that Poe attended. It can be said to be the self-portrait and portrayal of Edgar Allan Poe. This novel describing dual personality has had a profound influence on some great writers in later generations. Every story selected in the book is unique, thrilling, and fascinating.

"The Works of Somerset Maugham" is a collection of works by the British writer William Somerset Maugham, which includes a total of thirteen works. These works reflect Maugham's creative achievements and writing style. They include the novels "The Moon and Sixpence", "Christmas Holiday", "Carousel", "The Solitary Corner", "The Magician", "This Time", "Lady Craddock", "Catalina", "Lisa of Lambeth", short story collections "First Person Singular", "Malay Stories", "The Fall of Edward Barnard", and reading essays "Books and You".

"The Bathhouse of the Floating World" was written between 1809 and 1812. The book consists of two volumes. The first part describes the scene in the men's section of the bathhouse, which lasts from early morning to afternoon, with a lively and noisy atmosphere. There are dozens of characters among the bathers, including the paralyzed Dou Qi, a 70-year-old reclusive old man, Kinbei with his child, a quack doctor who plays nonsense, a stranger who mistakes someone else's underwear for a towel, a drunkard, a blind man, and 19 small scenes. The second part describes the women's section of the bathhouse, which is equally lively. There are women of various identities in the bathhouse, including geishas, ​​maids, daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law, mothers-in-law, wet nurses, etc., With a wide age range, and a total of 16 small scenes. The characters of each of the men, women, and children who come to bathe are vivid and interesting through dialogue. In the mist-shrouded bathhouse, the families are mixed up, and the world is mixed, weaving all kinds of interesting aspects of the life of the common people in Edo.

A frustrated writer named Henry, a taxidermist named Henry. The former's new book on the subject of the Jewish Holocaust was frustrated by innovation, while the latter has been writing a script for decades, about a monkey named Virgil and a donkey named Beatrice... Two strangers who had never met each other began to cooperate by fate, and a weird, interesting, climactic and philosophical journey of humanity began: they will explore survival, death, life-threatening violence, fear and redemption - in life and in the script.

"Life of Pi" is a masterpiece by the famous writer Jan Martel. It describes the magical story of an Indian boy and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker who were reborn after drifting in the Pacific for 227 days. The novel is about adventure, hope, miracle, survival and confidence. It is a story that can make people believe, and at the same time, it also allows readers to re-understand literature and believe in the power of literature. The book's realistic and imaginary maritime adventures and the contradictions of human nature that coexist with innocence and cruelty are ingeniously combined, creating a constant climax of reading surprises.

Nobel Prize in Literature The Collected Works of Hermann Hesse. Hesse spoke the language of young people, and he is the most read German writer. Hesse represents an old, true, pure and spiritual Germany. His writing is full of humanitarian spirit and love for mankind.

"Chrysanthemum and Sword (Sparks Collector's Edition)": A tasteful visual feast, with a free Sparkle Collection, containing more than 600 exquisite sparkles, covering everything secular in modern Japan, and has collection value. It also selects dozens of master illustrations such as "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" and "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon", painted by Katsushika Hokusai, Tsukioka Yoshitomo, etc.

"Journey to the Center of the Earth" was first published in 1864 and is one of Verne's early famous science fiction novels. The story tells that the German geologist Lidenbrock, influenced by a coded letter from his predecessor, took his nephew and guide on an adventure trip through the center of the earth. They descended from a volcano crater in Iceland, overcoming difficulties such as lack of water, getting lost, and storms along the way, and finally returned to the ground along a volcano in Sicily. This work has a tortuous plot and fluent language. With its extraordinary imagination, it presents readers with a fantasy world that transcends time and space.

The story takes place in 1864. During a voyage, Sir Glenarvan, the owner of the cruise ship Duncan, got a drift bottle, which contained clues about the Scottish navigator Captain Grant who was in distress and disappeared two years ago. In order to rescue Captain Grant in distress, Sir Glenarvan took his wife, his sailors, Captain Grant's children, and the geographer who accidentally entered the cruise ship on a journey to find Captain Grant. Floods, wolf attacks, scams... They experienced numerous hardships along the way, overcame all dangers with wisdom and courage, and finally rescued Captain Grant on a small island.

"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" tells the story of naturalist Professor Aronnax who accepted an invitation to participate in tracking the so-called narwhal. Unfortunately, he fell into the sea together with his follower Conseil and whaler Ned Rand. They were lucky enough to swim to a floating "island", which was the "narwhal" they were tracking - the submarine Nautilus. Captain Nemo allowed them freedom on the boat, but did not allow them to leave. In this way, they followed the Nautilus and began a fantastic underwater exploration journey. They crossed the Pacific, Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Antarctic and Arctic Oceans, saw the wonderful and spectacular underwater world, experienced various thrilling dangers, tried to escape many times but failed, and finally survived the desperate situation and returned to land. The submarine Nautilus was missing. Professor Aronnax makes his ten-month adventure public.

This book can be said to be a philosophical novel full of satirical humor and endless concern for the world. It is also a must-read classic for contemporary young people. The theme is to criticize the philosophy of blind optimism. The protagonist in the novel, Candide, is a naive and simple young man. He believes in the philosophy of optimism. In his view, the world is perfect, and everyone and everything is perfect. "In this most beautiful world, everything is going to be beautiful." However, his life experiences made a great mockery of his "philosophy".

The author of "Civilization" is a novelist. He knows that reality is never simple. Not only is there greatness in sinking, but there is also comedy in tragedy. Bitter satires, impassioned protests, and painful cries could not suppress the humorous smile. People's stupidity, eccentricity, vanity, and accidental teasing, through his sharp and bitter satire, are like the dance of ghosts in those bleak years and tragic scenery.