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After the death of Thomas More, the court of Henry VIII was still clouded: the new queen Anne Boleyn did not give birth to a prince as she wished, and Henry set his sights on Jane Seymour of Wolf Hall... At this time, rumors spread in the palace that the queen was unfaithful and even incestuous. Thomas Cromwell, the king's secretary, had already seen the opportunity and would overthrow Anne Boleyn and her family at the king's command. In the end, what will be the fate of the queen? What price will Cromwell pay, and can he escape unscathed?

When Ada was three years old, her mother left her with her grandmother and never appeared again. Ada and her grandmother depended on each other for life. She always asked her grandmother if this was the last time she would make her bed and if it would be the last time they had breakfast together. For this reason, grandma invented a game specifically for Ada: whenever a good thing seems to be coming to an end, she needs to listen to their sounds and listen to the sounds of things beginning. Sometimes these sounds are easily identifiable and possess a special magic. For example, the sound of various musical instruments being tuned before the start of the concert, the sound of rustling leaves when the wind starts, and the sound of putting the packed coffee cups on the coffee machine. The olive tree planted by my grandma's hands sprouted branches and became tall and tall, but my grandma gradually aged and was admitted to the hospital due to cancer. At the same time, Ada fell into a relationship that made her worry about gains and losses. When life seems bleak and dull, the beautiful sounds no longer sound. How can Ada muster up the courage to listen to the sound of beginning?

Nobel Prize winner Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" depicts an animal world full of surprises. Mowgli, the "human cub" who escaped from the tiger's mouth, grew up among the Sioni wolves. Not only did he learn the "laws of the jungle" from the brown bear Baloo and the black panther Bagheera, he also defeated the monkey people with the help of the rock python Kaa, and even defeated his old enemy - the vicious and despicable tiger Shere Khan! This book also contains elephants dancing late at night, white seals with a resolute character, and meerkats who are dedicated to their duties. Their lives are as exciting as Mowgli's story.

Ms. Burnett tells us a story about love and the magic of nature. Mary, a surly little girl whose parents are dead, lives in her uncle's gloomy manor. Led by the robin, she opens the secret garden that has been closed for a long time. From then on, she played and worked with the farm boy Dickon and the sick young master Colin. In the process of reviving the garden, the children develop a deep friendship and both Mary and Colin become healthy and sunny. After witnessing the magic of nature, Mr. Craven's fatherly love for Colin was awakened, and he also found the long-lost happiness.

"The Shackles of Life" is one of the most important masterpieces of the famous British writer and "story master" Maugham, and also his most famous autobiographical novel. The protagonist of the novel, Philip Carey, lost both his parents when he was young. Unfortunately, he was also born with a disability. He spent his childhood in an indifferent and unfamiliar environment, making his character withdrawn and sensitive. The years he spent in boarding school made him suffer from the unreasonable school system, and when he entered the society, he experienced pain in love. On the bumpy road of life, he had to struggle hard every step he took, but Kaili, who was independent in thought and personality, had been trying to break away from the two shackles that restricted his spirit, religion and petty citizen consciousness, and tried to find the true meaning of life in the chaotic and chaotic life.

This novel is first of all a satirical work, a "slander", and its object of ridicule is the various evil habits in the British literary world at that time represented by Driffield (alluding to Hardy - although Maugham once publicly denied it) and Arroy Gere (alluding to Hugh Walpole) in the book, just like a British "The Scholars". "Bi Hua Chai Video" is also a hymn, praising Driffield's ex-wife and the heroine Lucy in the book: this image of the charming Earth Mother can be called the most charming female character in Maugham's works. This image has been haunting the author for decades. In his mind, he had long thought about writing it into his own works but struggled with the opportunity. It was not until the writing of "Bi Huachai Video Recording" that this long-awaited opportunity finally came into being; Maugham himself also frankly admitted that this was the most touching female image he had ever created.

Roland, the last "gunslinger" from "Middle World", travels through the wilderness to track down his mortal enemy, the Man in Black. On the way, he meets a beautiful lady, Alice, and a little boy from the human world, Jack. In the end, Roland met the man in black and drew seven tarot cards that predicted his future destiny. Soon he will face a painful choice: should he capture the man in black to obtain information about the "Dark Tower", or save the life of the little boy Jack?

One rainy night, homeless homeless man Michael picked up an injured cat and named it Tabor. In order to escape the harsh winter, one man and one cat embarked on a journey across the west coast of the United States: they escaped blizzards and black bears, and depended on each other in despair and hope. Along the way, Thabo comforted Michael's heart, gave him endless love, and encouraged him to bravely face the trauma of his past. When they arrived in Montana, Michael received unexpected news - Tabor had an owner far away who never gave up looking for it. How will he choose? This story is adapted from real events, presenting the simplest and most authentic emotions between humans and animals, and proving the healing power of love.

The final chapter of the "Rabbit Tetralogy", the story takes place from the first Tuesday after Christmas in 1988 to October 1989. The protagonist Harry has retired, but finds that his business has been disrupted by his drug-addicted son, and he is unable to save the situation. After enjoying the fun of racing on the basketball court for the last time, he suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 56.

Eddie and Susanna, who fell in love, followed Roland on the road to the Dark Tower. Roland is determined to quickly train them into real gunslingers, but at the same time, he himself is troubled by double memories because he saved Jack behind the third door and changed history, and is about to collapse. And Jack also almost went crazy because he had an extra set of memories of his death and running to a different world. The hope of uniting everything that was divided into one rests on the mysterious fate between Eddie and Jack. Finally, after experiencing the breathless mysterious ritual, Jack re-entered the middle world and reunited with Roland and his party...

Since humans first measured the earth with their steps, the desire to explore space has never stopped. The seemingly simple question "where are we?" Has always had a tentative answer since humans began to understand space, and is constantly being replaced by new discoveries. In early civilizations, ancestors used myths to establish the original answer to "where." In the Bronze Age, people had created complex conceptual maps and were able to use the stars to find their way. In the Middle Ages, as the tools of calculation and navigation became more sophisticated, the discovery of a new continent revolutionized our understanding of "where" and the ensuing exploration quickly filled in the blank spaces on ancient parchment maps. In this day and age, telescope lenses have brought us closer to the sky, and new planets have been discovered. Planets are rapidly turning into galaxies, and new theories are gradually reshaping the entire universe. Past theories have either been confirmed or overturned, but our pace of exploring space has never stopped. The ever-changing concept of "where" is also waiting for "later us" to explore.

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

The most representative masterpieces of the Miss Agatha Marple series: "The Furies", "The Mystery of the Rye", "The Mystery of the Caribbean", "Murder Through the Looking Glass", "Bertram's Hotel", "The Murder Is Instructed", "The Magic Hand", "The Witness of a Murder", "The Grass of Death", "The Mystery of the Corpse in the Library", "Murder Through the Broken Mirror", "The House Mystery", "The Sleeping Murder" and "Miss Marple's Last Case", a total of 14 volumes.

Nineteen years have passed since Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger saved the wizarding world. Now they will return to the most bizarre adventure together with a brave new student who has just entered Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As Harry tries to resist a past that refuses to stand still, his youngest son, Albus, is forced to take on the responsibility of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present collide, father and son are locked in a race against time, battling mysterious forces with their futures still uncertain. Based on an original story by J. K. Rowling, John Tiffany and Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the complete script of this acclaimed West End play. This edition contains the final dialogue and stage directions from the original story, two parts, a conversation between director John Tiffany and screenwriter Jack Thorne, the Potter family genealogy, and a key timeline related to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Lie Girl Series 2. Lying is a common thing in people's lives, sometimes to paint a better vision for themselves, sometimes to please those around them. Steve Dawson is a typical example. Lies are often blurted out involuntarily, and later they are exhausted to cover up the lies. A humorous coming-of-age story for a sixteen-year-old girl, a first-person account of what it's like to lie and suffer the consequences.

I'm Nancy, a girl about to be 5 years old. I was originally a lively and cheerful child, but after I made that wish, everything changed - I found that the relationship between my parents was no longer as close as before, and they looked so strange; Aunt Eva began to be immersed in sadness, hesitantly looking through my uncle's lifetime memories. Diary, she seemed to have discovered something in that diary; the two pugs, Bee Bee and Mi Mi, also became enthusiastic and always wanted me to reveal my inner secrets, but I hadn't decided whether to tell them yet... So there were too many questions entangled in my heart - what happened to my parents? What secrets are hidden in the diary Aunt Eva is looking at? Bees and honeys, do you know why I stopped talking? That wish of mine is really too bad...

This edition is the Yang version of the Khazar Dictionary, which is different from the Yin version in 11 lines (according to paper book layout). It is also accompanied by a geographical map of the Khazar Khanate, a map of the characters of the Khazar Khanate, and six Jewish Halevi poems. "Khazar Dictionary", "the first novel of the 21st century". Khazar is a kingdom that existed in the Byzantine era. The "Khazar Dictionary" has always recorded the history of this kingdom that once existed and then declined. This "Khazar Dictionary" is divided into three parts: the Red Book (Christianity), the Green Book (Islam) and the Judaism (Yellow Book). It synthesizes the historical facts recorded by each of these three religions, and is recorded in the form of a dictionary. It does not use chronological processing, but records in alphabetical order. But after all, it is not a dictionary. Every name and event records the story and history of that name. Judging from the "data" reflected in the dictionary, the three books record events in three periods, forming a 3x3 matrix (3 may be a symbol of the Trinity). The characters in this book are constantly reincarnated, or traveling back and forth through time and space. In a relationship between three people, two people "entrust each other with dreams", and through dreams, these people travel through time and space. Russian critic Savelevoi believes that the Khazar Dictionary enables the author to "join the ranks of contemporary literary masters such as Marquez, Borges, Cortázar and Eco."

The Khazar king wanted to convert to a religion and choose one of the three religions: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Representatives of the three major religions in Constantinople gathered in the Khazar capital and held a "Khazar Great Debate". Each of the three religions had their own opinions on the outcome. The history written by the Khazars themselves has been lost to obscurity, and the results of this great debate can only be supported by the documents of these three religions. However, the results recorded by the three religions are contradictory, and they all believe that their side has won. So at the end of the seventeenth century, that is, hundreds of years later, a Khazar dictionary came out, including records of debates by the three major religions. The book was divided into three parts, namely the Red Book, the Green Book, and the Yellow Book, which recorded the respective opinions of the three religions. The authors of the Red, Green, and Yellow books in the seventeenth century were connected through dream-catching, and gradually pieced together the situation and history of the Khazar religion, and they had the conditions to get close to Adam. But they died when they met. There are also three demons who exist as destroyers who want to prevent humans from gaining knowledge about Adam. This was less of a danger at the end of the seventeenth century, because Adan Ruani was in a weaker period of his divinity. By 1982, it was the peak of Adam's divinity. At this time, the three scholars who were reincarnated from the three seventeenth-century dictionary authors began to gather the knowledge of this mysterious doctrine, and it was possible to obtain this knowledge again. The "Holy Family" composed of three devils who were afraid of human beings approaching Adam killed two scholars and put the other in jail. This knowledge once again became fragments. These fragments were compiled into the second edition, which is the "Khazar Dictionary" in the hands of readers today.

This book tells the tragic and sad story of a beautiful female scientist who devoted herself to science. The author integrates humanitarian and scientific thoughts in the story, and finally makes scientific rationality defeat religious fanaticism, and finds an ideal way out to ensure the reasonable existence of human beings and diverse creatures.

This book is the pure English version of "The Mortgated Heart" by the famous American writer Carson McCullers. The book is a collection of posthumous works compiled by McCullers' sister, including his early and later short stories and essays, which are full of McCullers-like themes of "human loneliness" and "inability to love".

This book is the pure English version of the masterpiece "The Image of the Golden Eye" by the famous American writer Carson McCullers. The book tells the story of the protagonist, Captain Pendant, whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of the lustful and charming Colonel Langton. It expresses the themes of alienation of human emotions and unfeasible love.

This book is the pure English version of the masterpiece "The Wedding Member" by the famous American writer Carson McCullers. The book tells the story of the heroine who dreams of attending her brother's wedding and flying away with them, but is unable to have meaningful communication in reality. It expresses the lament of everyone being locked in loneliness deep in their hearts.

This book is the pure English version of the masterpiece "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by the famous American writer Carson McCullers. The book tells the love story of two deaf-mute men, highlights the theme of loneliness, is full of McCullers-like emotions, and expresses that the deepest love cannot change the ultimate loneliness of human beings.

The story of the book takes place on a seaside street in Monterey Bay, California before World War II. In the early 1940s, the production of canned sardines was the main feature here, so it was called Cannery Row. The central character of the novel is a marine biologist named "The Doctor". Being highly educated, he did not look down on his neighbors - gamblers, traders, prostitutes, and homeless people. In his eyes, these people were "very healthy and surprisingly clean." Another group of characters, Mark and his friends, are a group of penniless vagrants with no ideals or pursuits. They live happily in Cannery Row. Their lives are simple. They neither hide their desires nor let money corrupt their souls. They are sincere and helpful.

The book tells the tragic story of two American migrant agricultural workers, George and Li Nai, who were impoverished but dependent on each other during the Great Depression of the 1930s, who dreamed-chased their dreams-came close to their dreams-and their dreams were shattered. The book not only artistically displays the conflict between pastoral farm life and cruel social reality, but also reflects people's true feelings about living conditions. "The best designs of mice and men often fail" - it is an image portrayal of the human survival situation, which embodies the tragic connotation and philosophical implications of the work and sublimates it into a modern fable representing universal experience.

"A Farewell to Arms" is a masterpiece by Hemingway, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Pulitzer Prize. The hero and heroine of the story met in a small town in northern Italy during the war. An American lieutenant who volunteered to join the Italian camp and a Scottish nurse from the Red Cross fell in love with each other. The war almost destroyed their love, but the injured lieutenant was saved from death after a shelling. The two reunited in a hospital in Milan and spent a rare sweet time together. The lieutenant who returned to the battlefield had doubts about the meaning of war, and witnessed the annihilation of humanity during the retreat. He did not hesitate to return to his lover at all costs... This work, written by Hemingway in Paris, is the practice of Hemingway's famous "journalistic" writing and "iceberg theory". "Vicious" critic Ford Madox Ford commented Regarding this work, "Every word directly touches the heart. It is as if pebbles were taken directly from the creek, so vibrant and shiny, staying in their respective positions." This publication is a full translation of the 1948 SCRIBNER final version without abridgement. J. K. Rowling and McCullers translator Mr. Lou Wuting were specially invited to carefully translate and annotate it. It contains a selection of Hemingway's image archives and a long author's preface from Hemingway's twenty-year reprint to help you better understand the classics.

"Watermark: Essays on Venice" is Brodsky's most witty, elegant and charming portrait of Venice, the most beautiful city. It captures every aspect of the city, from its waterways, streets, and buildings to its politics and people, customs and even traditional cuisine, fully displaying the natural and humanistic charm of Venice. What's more important is that this city has become a part of Brodsky's life experience and is inseparable from his flesh and blood. "Watermark" is the most beautiful and classic of all the narratives about Venice in the 20th century. It is Brodsky's only prose work that has been published in a single book. It has also become the poet's most sold and translated literary work.

In this collection of essays with rich themes and vast horizons, Joseph Brodsky begins with a deeply introspective look at his early experiences in Soviet Russia and his subsequent exile in the United States. Then, the author uses astonishing erudition to discuss a series of broad and deep topics such as the relaxation and change of poetry, the nature of history, and the double dilemma of exiled poets. The tentacles of thinking extend from ancient times to the present, from the ancient Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius to the modern and contemporary poets Thomas Hardy and Robert Frost. The philosophical discussion of the nature of existence and the passionate passion for poetic aesthetics are combined into another rare work after "Less than One".

Sometimes you can't help but think that our memories are similar to instant photos, just short and immediate fragments. In the spring of 1964, "I" met photographer Jan Sen, who worked for an American magazine. The two of us had a brief friendship. After that, he suddenly disappeared. Some people said that he went to Mexico, taking all the photos with him, leaving no trace of his existence. Thirty years later, "I" accidentally found a photo of the two of us, and just at this time, Jan Sen came back. Is this a coincidence? Is it just that the spring of 1964 was as bad as the spring of 1994? "I" met Jan Sen again, and the reunited friends once again fell into the memory and tracking of the past...

On April 24, 1933, a young couple committed suicide in a rented Paris apartment. That night, the young couple probably met some people and went to a dance club. Why did they finally choose to commit suicide? Thirty years later, a young man who accidentally learned of the incident began to investigate this old mystery again and tried to restore the situation that night. He gradually discovered that he had met many of the parties involved in that case. An investigation did not yield the expected answers, but instead opened more investigations. Those old friends who linger like ghosts, those names and figures blurred by time, and the explanations that have yet to come. These are the secrets of Paris. Can the protagonist find the truth of the case? This is a story about loss, pursuit, and reinvention.

Bosmans, who was seventy years old, began to recall his past life. He thought of a girl he dated 40 years ago, her name was Margaret LeCourz. During that time, the two often went out together because they had a common experience of being followed. Margaret was born to a man named Bouaval, while Bosmans was born to his mother and stepfather. Marguerite met Bouaval in a café, and the latter began to stalk her. In order to get rid of this man, Margaret went to Switzerland and then to Paris, where she met Bosmans. Margaret works as a nanny, and her employer is a somewhat mysterious male doctor who seems to have been associated with some cult groups in the past. Later, the male doctor was arrested, and Margaret chose to flee again, without any news. Now, 40 years later, Bosmans decided to find Margaret again, so he went to Berlin to look for this mysterious woman again...

"The Complete Collection of Nabokov's Short Stories" is the first complete collection of the literary master Nabokov's short stories in the country. 68 Short stories in different styles, edited by Nabokov's son Dmitry in chronological order. The man at the desk at night is disturbed by an uninvited guest, who turns out to be a wood elf from his hometown; the long-lost son reunites with his mother, but appears at an extremely embarrassing moment; the exiled barber named "Razor" shaves the man who once persecuted him; the groom has to report the bride's death to his father-in-law after the honeymoon; A shy dreamer makes a soul-deal with the devil... In these dark and magical stories, Nabokov perfectly demonstrates dazzling novel techniques, wild imagination and intellectual games, and fascinating insights into the unavoidable ambiguity and loss in life. They are called "the miracle of English literature".

"The Sign of the Bastard" is the first English novel Nabokov wrote after moving to the United States. It was once widely studied by critics as a political novel. The background of the novel is an autocratic country. The leader Bartuk and the protagonist Kruger were middle school classmates. In order to force the internationally renowned philosopher Kruger to endorse his party's Ecclesianism, Bartuk kidnapped Kruger's son David. However, when Kruger compromised and the child was returned, people discovered that the child was with another child. A child with the same surname was mistaken, and the real David was tortured and killed in a juvenile detention center. Kruger then went crazy and attacked Bartuk. When he was about to be shot - Nabokov created the image of a novelist, and Kruger's story is only the work of the novelist. Kruger was spared a tragic fate, and the novel ended abruptly.

"Cheer up!" She shouted, "Look at those clowns!" "What clowns? Where are they?" "Oh, they are everywhere. All around you. Plants and trees are clowns, words are clowns. Scenes and numbers are clowns. Put two things together, one joke, one image, and you have a three-part clown. Come on! Play! Fictional world! Fictional reality!" I really did. Oh my gosh, I really did. To commemorate those first daydreams, I invented this great-aunt, and now she is walking tremblingly along the marble steps of the front porch of memory, sideways, sideways, poor lame lady, touching the edge of each step with the rubber tip of her black cane.

One of the strangest of all Nabokov's novels. The novel consists of a preface, a four-chapter poem, commentary and index. Just looking at the four-section structure with commentary as the main body cannot help but make people suspicious. It is said that Nabokov was inspired by the process of translating Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin". The number of pages in the notes exceeds the translation by ten times. As an avant-garde exploratory writer, Nabokov was always looking for original novel forms. This intertextual structure with commentary as the main body reflects Nabokov's point of view: "Human life is nothing more than a series of notes added to an obscure and unfinished masterpiece."

The plot of the novel is not fundamentally unfamiliar; in fact, I suspect that two respectable writers, Balzac and Dreiser, would accuse me of gross imitation, but, I swear, I had not read their absurd works at the time, and even now have no idea what they said in Under the Cypresses. After all, Charlotte Humbert's husband wasn't that innocent either. The question of the title of the book. The three face cards were all heart cards, so I kept them and discarded a small pair. The two new cards I was dealt might prove that the gamble was right, because I always have an ivory thumb in this game of gambling. Evenly matched, very lucky, and inextricably squeezed out a slight advantage through the sting of smoke. I can only hope that my good old poker partners, who all have a full house and a straight, think I'm trying to scare off my opponents with big bets.

A collection of systematically related personal memories spanning thirty-seven years (from August 1903 to May 1940), it is one of Nabokov's most important and famous works. It uses the precise language of a lepidopterist to observe the wonderful patterns on butterfly wings through a high-power magnifying glass and describe them, giving readers an extraordinary reading experience. Memory and review of the past often dominate Nabokov's novels, so this autobiography is an excellent code for interpreting his novels, because memory itself is a hidden bridge between fantasy and reality.

Nabokov's most autobiographical and witty classic. Originally serialized in four chapters intermittently in The New Yorker magazine from 1953 to 1957, it was Nabokov's first novel to attract widespread attention and popularity among American readers. Describes the life of an exiled old Russian professor teaching in an American university. Nabokov cleverly blended Russian culture and modern American civilization, and humorously and intelligently portrayed a distressed man who had lost his homeland, severed ties with his motherland's culture, and lost his love.

This book is Nabokov's fourth novel, telling the life of spy Smurov. Only at the end does the reader realize that the narrator of the book is Smurov himself. Due to his special identity, he only sees himself and observes others through the eyes of others, and protects his identity from being discovered. He finally committed suicide because he couldn't bear the humiliation of others, but was even more humiliated after his death. "The Eye" focuses on the nature of personal identity, arguing that an individual with a strong sense of self can only be defined by his understanding of what those around him say about him.

The book revolves around the protagonist Hugh Person and his four visits to Switzerland. It begins with a description of his fourth return to Switzerland, the first time he came here eighteen years ago. The young Hugh Person was a melancholy, shy publisher who fell in love with Amanda, who would become his wife, on his second trip to Switzerland. Hugh Person lives in memories and insists on staying in the same hotel every time he goes to Switzerland. However, at the same time, he tried his best to avoid memories, because memories can only bring pain.

This book is the author's first novel written in English. The protagonist Sebastian wrote several books and died young due to a heart disease. He was lost in love once in his short life. The book contains both the impoverished wandering life of the Russian aristocracy and the sincere memories of his half-brother. Fragments echo throughout the book, exploring time, love, death, art and other eternal themes in a gorgeous and simple way.

This book is one of Nabokov's lesser-known biographies. The author takes readers into Gogol's youth, looks through his early works, and provides detailed reviews of his collection of The Imperial Envoy and the first volume of Dead Souls. He also briefly reviews Gogol's most famous short story, "The Overcoat." In the book, Nabokov explores Gogol's unique writing style, using multiple fragments of his own translation to prove Gogol's impeccable prose. He emphasized not the plots of Gogol's works but their style, and successfully showed another side of Gogol, who was known for his satire.

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."

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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.