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An urban emotional novel that explores the nature of love and the relationship inside and outside marriage. The masterpiece of Japanese "national writer" Junichi Watanabe's novels. Once the book came out, it sparked heated discussions in Japanese society and even became a social phenomenon. It has been adapted into popular TV series and movies. Marriage is first come, first served, but love often comes late. A frustrated husband in the workplace and a woman trapped in a loveless marriage met at the midpoint of their respective marriages, recognizing and falling in love with each other's true form and life. They indulged in love and passion, indulged in pleasure under ethical pressure but couldn't stop, and finally fixed their love in a happy moment. In "Paradise Lost", love is just a coat, love is the foundation. The author uses compassionate writing to provide an outlet and an imagination space for the secret desires that are difficult to realize in the hearts of men and women. A literary masterpiece that fully embodies the Japanese aesthetics of mourning, and a passionate translation that makes Lin Shaohua feel "unsafe".

"Put Dinner in the Drawer" contains 60 poems written by Han Jiang in the twenty years since his debut. Transparent night, dark trees, burning wheelchair, winter on the other side of the mirror. In the collection of poems "Put Dinner in the Drawer", Han Jiang re-examines the subtle emotions in daily life, using bloody language drawn from the dark night to describe the loneliness and sadness of life. She gazes eagerly into the human soul, trying to find the shining truth in a world of silence and darkness. Han Jiang's poetry creation runs through her entire writing career. Her poems are intensely emotional and full of sensual imagery, in line with her novels.

This set contains 5 works by Han Jiang, namely "Vegetarian", "Aphasia", "Put Dinner in the Drawer", "White" and "Plant Wife".

Dazai Osamu's masterpiece. "Disqualification in the World" (1948) is the most outstanding work in Dazai's literature. It was written before committing suicide. It is his last work and is also the "most profound reaching point" of Dazai's literature (Okuno Keno). The work depicts a young intellectual with an eccentric temperament, who suffered from the harshness of the world, indulged in wine and sex, and finally destroyed himself. "The Setting Sun" (1947) is a very important work in Japan's post-war literary world and has set a best-selling record for post-war literary works. The work shows the declining social status of the descendants of the nobles after the war and the dilemma of losing their glory. It can also be said to be Dazai's elegy to the declining nobles. The term "Xiyang Clan" is widely known as a synonym for declining nobles.

The prosperous Tang Dynasty was a very pioneering era in Chinese history. The author of this book, Professor Lai Ruihe, has a passion for searching for the relics of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. During nine cultural and historical trips to more than 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in China, he selected more than 160 photos to record the various cultural and historical landscapes he saw during his travels. With concise and popular text explanations, he once again sounded the lingering sound of the prosperous Tang Dynasty thousands of years later with profound cultural accumulation, showing readers a corner of history and expressing their nostalgia for the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

A powerful country that originated on Earth, but eventually left its homeland due to intermarriage with aliens and established itself on a distant planet. However, due to a crisis in the rule of a certain monarch, he was invaded by foreign enemies and lost his country, and established a puppet regime. The monarch who lost his country fled to Earth with his young daughter and entrusted her to a reclusive wise man. When her daughter grew up, she led a group of assistants to fight again, drove away the colonists and restored the country. However, the enemy has not given up and continues to instigate various conspiracies inside and outside the country in an attempt to make a comeback. The story of the first novel begins five years after the restoration of the People's Republic of China...

On a snowstorm day, Lockwood, a young tenant of Thrushcross Grange, visited the landlord Heathcliff who lived in Wuthering Heights and stayed there because of the bad weather. After returning, he accidentally discovered from the housekeeper Nelly the secret of the two families for three generations: Heathcliff was an abandoned child and was adopted by Sean, the old owner of Wuthering Heights. Sean's son Hindley is jealous of his father's preference for Heathcliff and secretly humiliates Heathcliff in every possible way; Sean's daughter Catherine has a passionate and unrestrained personality. She has been childhood sweethearts with Heathcliff since childhood, and the two have been in love for a long time. When the time comes to talk about marriage, Catherine is forced to choose between the passionate, tortured Heathcliff and the gentle, nurturing Edgar of Thrushcross Grange, whom she ultimately chooses.

Japan's modern emperor system is supported by the concept of the emperor personally leading the army, emphasizing the emperor's absolute leadership of the army and the absolute loyalty of soldiers to the emperor. However, after World War I, the emperor's authority as the supreme commander was greatly shaken, and the military, which was regarded as a "gut-armed minister", also underwent a qualitative change. As Pandora's box of military interference in politics was opened, Japan stepped into the abyss of war. This book is the culmination of decades of "war" research by Yoko Kato, the "first person to study Japanese wars" and a professor at the University of Tokyo. It explores the development history of the relationship between the emperor and the military in modern times, traces the historical roots of Japan's founding of the army and constitution in the Meiji period, extends to the issues of disarmament and repatriation of the Japanese army, and covers the entire period of the existence of the "Japanese army". She analyzed the facts with clear logic and bright writing style, put forward a new perspective to capture history, analyzed the characteristics of modern Japanese political-military relations, and elaborated on the background of Japan's national decision-making. By exploring the relationship between the emperor and the military, we answer a long-standing question: "Why didn't the emperor stop the war?"

Young Jerome and his cousin Alyssa were childhood sweethearts and spent their innocent childhood together in the picturesque countryside. One evening, he accidentally bumped into his aunt's love affair, and then saw Alyssa kneeling in the afterglow, grieving for her mother's behavior. This moment sealed his fate: he was determined to protect Alyssa for the rest of his life. Jerome and Alyssa fell in love with each other and believed that only by becoming better would they be worthy of each other. When Alyssa saw through the real worldly face of marriage, which was far from the eternal pure love in her dream, she kept retreating and escaping from Jerome: she hoped to find the narrow door to happiness by abandoning worldly pleasures. Two people who love each other are drifting apart like this. A few years later, Jerome suddenly learned of Alyssa's death and received the diary she left for him...

Tagore wrote poetry all his life. At the age of 51, he selected 103 poems and compiled them into a "Psalms dedicated to God", which is "Gitanjali". From daily life to the splendor of the universe, everything is poetically presented in the book. Each poem is a combination of beauty and truth. At the age of 52, Tagore became Asia's first Nobel Prize winner with this book. "Gitanjali" brings unprecedented peace of mind to readers, and it still touches everyone who reads it.

"If you understand Yasujiro Ozu, you will understand life." Yasujiro Ozu is a well-known Japanese film director and playwright. He directed a total of 54 films in his lifetime, creating a unique film aesthetics that profoundly influenced the development of Japanese and even world film history, as well as Japan's modern life aesthetics and people's attitudes towards daily life. Opening the collection of Ozu Yasujiro's classic works, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Ozu Yasujiro often speaks a few words, which can enlighten people and instantly awaken our love for daily life. This book includes Ozu Yasujiro's "Tokyo Story", "Early Spring" and "Tokyo Twilight".

"If you understand Yasujiro Ozu, you will understand life." Yasujiro Ozu is a well-known Japanese film director and playwright. He directed a total of 54 films in his lifetime, creating a unique film aesthetics that profoundly influenced the development of Japanese and even world film history, as well as Japan's modern life aesthetics and people's attitudes towards daily life. Opening the collection of Ozu Yasujiro's classic works, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Ozu Yasujiro often speaks a few words, which can enlighten people and instantly awaken our love for daily life. This book includes Ozu Yasujiro's "Flowers of the Other Shore", "Good Morning" and "Floating Grass".

"If you understand Yasujiro Ozu, you will understand life." Yasujiro Ozu is a well-known Japanese film director and playwright. He directed a total of 54 films in his lifetime, creating a unique film aesthetics that profoundly influenced the development of Japanese and even world film history, as well as Japan's modern life aesthetics and people's attitudes towards daily life. Opening the collection of Ozu Yasujiro's classic works, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Ozu Yasujiro often speaks a few words, which can enlighten people and instantly awaken our love for daily life. This book includes "Late Spring", "Wheat Autumn" and "The Taste of Tea and Rice" by Yasujirō Ozu.

"If you understand Yasujiro Ozu, you will understand life." Yasujiro Ozu is a well-known Japanese film director and playwright. He directed a total of 54 films in his lifetime, creating a unique film aesthetics that profoundly influenced the development of Japanese and even world film history, as well as Japan's modern life aesthetics and people's attitudes towards daily life. Opening the collection of Ozu Yasujiro's classic works, you will be pleasantly surprised to find that Ozu Yasujiro often speaks a few words, which can enlighten people and instantly awaken our love for daily life. This book includes "Autumn Peace", "Autumn in the Kobayakawa Family" and "The Taste of Saury" by Yasujiro Ozu.

Michelle, a young scholar, has always dealt with books and lived a regular life. During a honeymoon trip, he became seriously ill and his wife Marceline's careful care brought him back from the brink of death. When he first recovered from his illness and felt the sunshine, springs, oases, and deserts of a foreign country, he seemed to discover the beauty of everything in the world, and his long-sleeping senses awakened: he was shocked to realize that he had never truly lived. Michelle is determined to get rid of the mediocre life of the past and have fun. When he lets go of his morality, can he find his true self...

"Water Margin" is one of the four classic Chinese classics. The work takes the peasant uprising as the theme and vividly describes the story of the Northern Song Dynasty when treacherous ministers were in power and the people were in dire straits. The peasant uprising army headed by Song Jiang gradually grew in strength and protected the people. Later, they were recruited to fight for the Song Dynasty and performed military exploits. However, they were murdered by powerful officials for their own selfish purposes, and finally perished. The novel vividly depicts the characters of 108 Liangshanbo heroes, reflects the darkness of feudal society, praises the rebellious spirit and righteous actions of the uprising heroes, and exposes the sharply opposed social contradictions at that time. After the publication of the work, it had a huge impact on society and became a model for Chinese novel creation.

A series of suspenseful reasoning stories, a different life of a lazy detective, behind a "suicide" case, who is the real murderer behind the scenes? Once the proud young lady is in trouble, what kind of story is hidden by the seemingly innocent victim? What is the connection between the smart and capable woman and the victim? Please watch Private Detective Jiang Yi and open the door to detective.

"My Antonia" is the representative work of American female writer Willa Cather. It is one of the American novels describing life on the grasslands in the Midwest. The work is set in the prairie of Nebraska and describes the story of Antonia, a descendant of Bohemian immigrants, who reclaims wasteland in the wilderness and starts a business through hard work. Content of the novel: The Shermelda family, a Bohemian immigrant, left their hometown and came to Nebraska. When they first set foot on this remote land, they lived with nothing but nothing. Unable to bear the pain of homesickness and the pressure of life, Mr. Himmelda eventually shot himself. After Shimelda's death, his daughter Antonia took on the burden of the family. She\

"The Grapes of Wrath" is a novel written by American writer John Steinbeck in 1939. "The Grapes of Wrath" is based on the background of farmers' bankruptcy, escape and struggle in central states during the economic crisis. Farmers in Oklahoma and neighboring states of Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas were deeply in debt, their land confiscated by large corporations, and they were homeless. They had to move westward, trying to find a way out in California. The novel takes the Yoder family as the representative and records the difficult experience of a family of twelve escaping from Oklahoma to California. After they sold everything in their home, they bought a dilapidated car, and the family fled westward in the car. On the way, young Noah and Connie deserted halfway. When they arrived in California, everything was not as beautiful as they imagined. Unemployment, hunger and poverty were still waiting for them. Farmers there used their surplus labor to lower wages for tenant farmers, and local forces extorted and persecuted wandering farmers. So the farmers were angry, they united and fought. The "anger" in the title of the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" is a strong protest against the unfair social system that leads to poverty.

In 1916, Gorky published "In the World" in "Chronicle" magazine. The story describes that after the death of his mother, his bankrupt grandfather drove Alyosha out of the house. He joined society and came to the so-called "human world". In order to survive, Alyosha worked everywhere to make a living, working as a draftsman's apprentice, a dishwasher on a ship, and an apprentice in an icon workshop. He came into contact with all kinds of people at the bottom of society. During his difficult life, he read all the books he could find, hoping to find answers to life from books. Not only did he gain comfort and inspiration, but he also realized that books are a powerful ideological weapon for a better future. Facing complex social problems, he was troubled and hesitant, and wanted to rely on knowledge and science to get out of the predicament, so he left his hometown and went to Kazan.

"Andersen's Fairy Tales and Stories" is a collection of fairy tales created by Danish writer Andersen, which took nearly forty years to create. The fairy tales created by Andersen are treasures of world literature and are childhood books dedicated to everyone. Andersen received royal tribute during his lifetime, and his fairy tales were translated into more than 150 languages ​​and published around the world. Andersen's fairy tales are rich in fantasy, innocent conception and simple sense of humor, expressing themes that transcend age and nationality. As Zhou Zuoren commented: "We observe everything with the eyes of a child and write it with the pen of a poet. Therefore, it is beautiful and natural and can be called a masterpiece. There is no one before and no one after." Andersen's creation can be divided into three periods: early, middle and late. Early fairy tales are mostly full of beautiful fantasy and optimistic spirit, reflecting the characteristics of a combination of realism and romanticism. In the middle period of fairy tales, the fantasy component is weakened and the realistic component is relatively enhanced. In lashing out the ugliness and praising the good, it expresses the persistent pursuit of a better life and also reveals the melancholy of lack of confidence. Fairy tales in the late period are more face to reality than those in the middle period. They focus on describing the tragic fate of the people at the bottom and exposing the coldness, darkness and injustice of social life. The tone of the works is low. This complete collection was translated based on the 1992 commemorative edition of Danish Hans Lezzers Publishing House and consists of 157 stories.

Gerber, a child hypnotist, specializes in treating children who have suffered psychological trauma. He can always dig out the truth from the children's words, whether true or false, until a special patient arrives. Hannah, 30, is beautiful and fragile, suffering from selective amnesia. In her incomplete childhood memories, she only vaguely remembered a murder case, and the murderer was herself! In order to get the little girl in her memory to tell the truth about that year, Gerber used hypnosis to send Hannah back to her weird childhood 20 years ago. The screaming house, the brother in the box, the ghost hiding in the home... As Gerber gradually penetrated into Hannah's memory, he suddenly discovered that his real life was being eroded bit by bit...

There is a great liar in the world, and he is a god. To be precise, he is the African god of lies, the spider god Anansi. The web of lies spun by the Spider God is so interesting that people get caught in it and believe his lies to be the truth. For example, people always believe that problems can be solved by using their brains, that stories are originally told by humans, and that liars will have no good end... These all stem from the lies made up by the Spider God. The Spider God's lies are certainly abominable, but without the humor behind his lies and the wisdom behind his tricks, the world would be so boring, dark, and ordinary. The truth is also false when it is false. Only by tearing apart the Spider God's web of lies can we see the true meaning of life...

On a sunny Sunday, the president of Bayleaf Company died suddenly in his office. The cause of death was a severe blow to the head, and the scene was a glass secret room under seven layers of security. The office is on the 12th floor. The entire building is surrounded by embedded glass windows, making it impossible to enter from the outside. There is a security room at the entrance of the building, and registration is required to enter the building. The elevator to the 12th floor requires special password authentication. All the stair doors leading to the 12th floor were locked that day, and there were no signs of lock picking. There is a surveillance camera at the door of the office, which was operating normally at the time of the incident. The office has glass windows, all made of bulletproof glass. There were three secretaries working nearby at the time of the incident and no abnormalities were found. How did the murderer break through these seven levels of security, commit murder and escape unscathed?

The novel "The Fish King" is Astafiev's most unique masterpiece and a classic of contemporary Russian literature. The book is composed of thirteen "narrative short stories" with relatively independent contents, all centered on the relationship between man and nature. It depicts Siberia full of mysterious temptations in depth and detail, as well as the people living there, and their reflections on life. The desolate, bitter and cold natural environment is at the same time a place where nature shows its majesty, vastness and richness. Although human footprints are like claws in snow and mud, they still carry the dignity of endless life. These chapters show a unique style in terms of ideological content and artistic form, downplaying the plot, and describing the details delicately and vividly. They "integrate novels, novellas, lyrical essays, and moral discussions into one" (Wang Xiaobo). They reveal coherent content and images from different angles and methods, just like a string of pearls strung inadvertently, each one reflecting dazzling light with its own beauty.

"Hey, where can the demon escape?" "How dare you practice sorcery in front of the Taoist Master?" "The demon is really powerful!" "If I use this move, how should you respond?" "Poof!" "Grandpa Immortal, I was wrong. I should never have accused you of being a demon!"

Herzog lay on the sofa, looking back on his life, he felt that it was a mess, really a mess: to his wife, he was a bad husband; to his parents, he was an ungrateful child; to the country, he was an inactive citizen. He had the chance to love, but he was lazy. He had the chance to shine, but he chose to be dim. He is powerful but very inactive. He has his own soul, but he never dares to face it. He was always thinking so hard, as if he would die if he stopped thinking. He began to write letters non-stop, with endless things to say in his heart. He wanted to write to everyone in the world...

Are you that person who thinks you are kind and harmless, but is actually cold and cruel? "People Who Harm Me" contains eight novels written by Cui Enrong. In the author's words, those relationships that ended silently in sobs, those indifferent and belated disappointments, those indifferent and determined turns and disregards, together build an emotional network that is more complex than the plot of the story. The wife of a prisoner who suffered injustice, the student who was domestically abused, the believer who fled to Africa to practice asceticism, the family members of the victims of the shipwreck, the confidants in the foreign country isolated by the war... The people in the story are wandering on the edge of the secular world, most of them are weak and quiet, harmless but have been hurt repeatedly, and it is difficult to escape the melancholy and pain. Their hearts form their own unique texture with inherent trauma, which cannot be erased or repaired. The perpetrators are often harmless people like them. The comfort and happiness that the world longs for can always be realized after shielding the loneliness and pain of others. Cui Enrong recorded these cruel stories in a gentle style. They exude coldness under the warm sunshine, and reveal great loss in the intimacy. When memories crackle silently, half of the people in the story move forward without hesitation, while the other half stay where they are forever, with only loneliness echoing.

Gide's passionate spiritual monologues, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, are regarded as "the Bible of a restless generation." Gide unreservedly condensed the truest emotions in his heart into a long and affectionate poem, translated by Sheng Chenghua, an expert on Gide's works. "Food from the Earth" is a series of poetic fragmentary thoughts written by Gide in a lyrical way, combining traditional short poems, odes, melody and other forms after he traveled to North Africa and Italy. He senses the flowers and fruits of life with his fiery soul, and turns this sincere love into carols and poetry.

[Full-length masterpiece by Naoki Award-winning author Tsujimura Fukasuki] [Suspense reasoning + brain-burning reversal + fantasy and weirdness] This book is the first horror mystery novel by Naoki Award-winning author Tsujimura Fukasuki. The story is full of dark and eerie atmosphere, and also has a fantasy setting of urban ghost stories. The Kanbara family has always been surrounded by disasters. No matter where they move, they always bring bad luck to those around them. A smile full of malice, words without a sense of boundaries, a terrifying figure following behind... The overwhelming malice continues to spread around you, and death follows you everywhere. The mysterious transfer student, the gentle and easy-going senior, the beautiful and enthusiastic housewife, the affable company senior, darkness lurks among them...

This book traces the history of Prussia's participation in religious conflicts and political competition on the European continent: from the destruction of the Thirty Years' War to the disintegration of the Holy Roman Empire, from King Frederick the Great's Enlightenment to Napoleon's devastating conquests, from Bismarck's iron-blooded policy to the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, and the impact of all this on the turbulent 20th century. Prussia was once considered the cause of Europe's two wars in the first half of the 20th century, but Clark shows us how this country made an immeasurable contribution to the fate of Western civilization. People often forget that Prussia was once a model of European humanistic tradition. It had an efficient government, a clean civil service and a tradition of religious tolerance. It was considered to have the mission of leading the unification and prosperity of Germany. "The Iron Kingdom" is an authoritative work on the key role played by Prussia in modern history. Christopher Clark uses delicate writing, rigorous logic, profound thinking and comprehensive examination to tell the fascinating and ups and downs of this country and the Hohenzollern dynasty for more than 300 years.

What is it like to deliver food on Monster Earth? I, a former sci-fi researcher preparing to make it big in a food startup, accidentally lost my job and became a food delivery driver. At the critical moment when this job was about to be ruined, an old acquaintance who often ordered takeout offered me an olive branch: I would go to an animal protection base to work in my old profession - transporting goods. However, this old acquaintance did not tell me that the so-called base is not on the earth at all, at least not on the earth we have been living on! When I came to Greenland, a lush island, and saw strange creatures the size of hills and self-contained ecosystems wandering on a land where no humans had set foot, I had an ominous premonition. 2023 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Hugo Award for Best Novel Popular Work! Is it unbearable to live on earth without monsters? Delivery workers save the world, an alternative survival guide for social animals! Humorous science fiction × monster aesthetics, sweeping away the long-standing heaviness and difficulty in the science fiction world. If you also like "Jurassic Park", "Godzilla" and "The Big Bang Theory", please don't miss this book!

A work commemorating the 25th anniversary of Nishizawa Yasuhiko's debut! A collection of mature character reasoning short stories. When I came to my senses, thirty-eight years had passed, the era had changed from Showa to Reiwa, and I had become a ghost. Who killed me and why am I buried in this hole? A teacher troubled by murderous nightmares woke up and found that the dream had become reality. He drove to the abandoned house and found that the bodies were increasing one by one. Could it be that the female student who commissioned the murder has the ability to manipulate people's hearts? Writer Thomas brought his newly written novel to his friends to read. The content is about an unsolved murder case more than forty years ago. Are those unnatural places a flaw in the novelist's creative skills or does he have another agenda? The five short stories are like falling into an illusion, like watching a movie that has never happened in the past but is quite real. The mysteries of the past are gradually becoming clearer, but people today are trapped by delusions...

A history of human civilization and a history of how humans rule. For much of premodern times, empires were the dominant form of human rule. Since the beginning of modern times, nation-states have been forged in the forges of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. Nationalism seems to have become the universal law of human domination. Empire became synonymous with invaders and colonialism, and was swept into the dustbin of history. However, modern nation-states have not completely solved human governance problems. National conflicts and great-power chauvinism have created war after war. Since the 21st century, with the in-depth development of globalization and multiculturalism, empire has become the object of people's attention again. Different from a large number of anti-imperialist histories written with the ruled as the protagonists, Professor Krishan Kumar takes a different approach and presents to us the rise and fall of the five world empires, the Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian, British and French empires, their governance experience and mission pursuit from the perspective of the imperial rulers and the subject nation.

"The Apple Cart: A Political Rhapsody" is a play written by Irish playwright Bernard Shaw in 1928. The title of the book "The Apple Cart" comes from the British proverb "overturning the apple cart", which means "upsetting a wishful thinking". This is a satirical comedy about political philosophy. The author expresses his hidden worries about British politics through this fictional story. Synopsis: The fictional King Magnus of England has a dispute with Prime Minister Brotus and his cabinet. The prime minister and cabinet tried to deprive the monarchy of its remaining political influence. The king used his wisdom to resolve the crisis, and everything was business as usual. But in the end, a political problem was left unresolved... Bernard Shaw expressed his hidden worries about British politics through this fictional story. Although it has certain limitations, it is very prescient. This book is translated by Lao She and is the crystallization of the wisdom of two Chinese and foreign drama masters.

"The Picture of Dorian Gray", also known as "The Picture of Dorian Gray", is a novel written by the British dramatist and novelist Oscar Wilde. The story tells the story of Dorian, a young aristocratic boy with good looks and good heart, who saw his portrait made by a painter and discovered his amazing beauty. Under the instigation of the painter friend Lord Henry, he made a wish to the portrait: the beautiful boy will remain young forever, and all the vicissitudes of the years and the sins of the boy will be borne by the portrait. So he began to indulge his evil desires... This book is translated by Li Jiazhen.

"Storymaster" Maugham's guide to reading and writing is dedicated to everyone. Maugham, known as the "story master", is well-deserved for his global reputation. His works have been introduced and published in many countries, and his writing experience and writing skills are also talked about by the majority of literature lovers. In his later years, Maugham published the book "The Summing Up", which is not only a review of Maugham's life writing career, but also a summary of Maugham's many years of writing experience. Through this book, readers can comprehensively master writing skills. For example, how to read a book efficiently? How to improve writing skills? How to enhance sensitivity? How to write good articles that are clear, concise and pleasant to the ears? How to write a drama to quickly win hearts and minds? How to use techniques when writing novels? How to improve comprehension and cognition through reading? In this book, Maugham explains the profound meaning of reading and writing with humorous language and sharp and concise style.

Two months, two corpses, two missing mobile phones - a female corpse was found on the coast. According to the ID information on her body, her name was Tsumi Shino. Suddenly receiving news of the death of his wife who had been missing for many years, detective Ji Xiao rushed to the scene with all kinds of questions and complicated emotions. However, what he saw was a completely unfamiliar face. Who is she? Why did you take your wife's name? Xiaoxiao suppressed the anger in her heart and tried her best to trace her true identity. Soon, a man's body was found in the park, also carrying his ID. His mobile phone was missing, but his face and fingers were damaged. How are the two related? All they want to hide is their identity? Or something other than identity? Xiaoxiao felt like she was entangled in invisible threads...

Xunzi and Hechang, a seemingly inseparable couple, decided to divorce after their daughter Ruisui's primary school interview. However, while waiting for the interview test, they received news that their daughter had accidentally drowned. Mizuho's brain was severely damaged and he was unable to breathe on his own. Xunzi and Hechang were heartbroken, but they could only face the reality. Just when they accepted the fact of their daughter's death, agreed to organ donation before the brain death was determined, and said their final goodbyes to their daughter, Mizuho's hand suddenly moved. Seeing this reaction, Xunzi insisted that her daughter was still alive. The family was about to face an uncontrollable situation and difficult choices they had never imagined...

Historian Emma Rothschild combined parish archives, tax records, memoirs and other materials to conduct a panoramic observation of the story of five generations of an ordinary French family, and restored a huge local social network around a prenuptial agreement, thus opening up a boundless historical time and space composed of many ordinary people. It is like a painting by Bruegel, with countless detailed historical contexts buried in it, telling the fear and love, uneasiness and hope of ordinary people of the same generation as Robespierre, Napoleon, Tocqueville, and Balzac, and describing the political, economic and social vicissitudes of France in the past three hundred years.

Shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Prize (2008), and selected into The Guardian's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century (2019). An architect built a dream summer villa on the lakeside outside Berlin, but he had no idea what this land had and would experience: a young woman went crazy and drowned in the lake; Jewish neighbors sold their property at a low price and then disappeared; the advancing Red Army requisitioned the house; fled the Nazi government The author Quan returned from exile and wanted to drag out an ideal home that could last for a long time from the ruins; decades after the reunification of the two Germanys, her granddaughter was forced to give up the property rights, and the successor was the heir of its original builder... In the same place, residents of different eras separated and came. The huge invisible force of history continues to erode mankind's efforts to establish lasting values, and above all passion, pain, reconciliation and destiny stands a landscape that no amount of madness or turmoil can truly change. The "iceberg-like transcendence" poetic narrative of "A Guest" is an echo of Germany's centuries-old vicissitudes. From the Weimar Republic to the years after reunification, twelve fragments of life form a mosaic in which the past and the future collapse. The real teller of the story is time. "Eternal life has existed in the lifetime of an individual human being."

George and Lennie are a pair of homeless people who work everywhere to make ends meet. They have a dream to own a small piece of land of their own, with a small windmill, a small shed, a chicken coop, a pig pen, an orchard, and an alfalfa field so that Lenny can raise his favorite rabbits. However, all this is a dream. But George and Lennie did not give up. This time, they came to work on a new farm, hoping to work hard here and save more money, but they didn't want Lennie to get into trouble again...

At first glance, a second-hand house listed for sale in Tokyo looks like a very ordinary single-family house. There's just something strange about the floor plan of the house. There is a "mysterious space" between the kitchen and the living room on the first floor. Carefully look at every corner of the house plan, and you'll find puzzling designs everywhere. Double doors, a windowless children's room, a dressing room with an unobstructed view... The various inconsistencies hidden behind the bright open room are intertwined, ultimately pointing to a truth... A truth that sends chills down the back and that no one wants to believe.

"The Tale of Genji" is set in the heyday of the Heian Dynasty in Japan and describes the life experience and love story of the protagonist Genji. The book has a total of fifty-four chapters and involves more than 400 characters, among whom there are 20 or 30 memorable ones. The characters are mainly upper-class nobles, but there are also middle- and lower-class nobles, palace maids, maids and common people. The book uses several major events as the key and turning point in the development of the story, and methodically passes through various small events to integrate the development and climax of the story with each other, gradually revealing the inside story of aristocratic social life. "The Tale of Genji" reflects the cultural life and social background of the Heian period. While implementing the realistic "real" aesthetic idea, it also created the Japanese romantic idea of ​​"mono-sorrow".

Another mysterious masterpiece by Pavich, the author of "Khazar Dictionary" and "The Romance of the Fish-scale Hat". It is a masterpiece for imagination lovers and a literary giant that reinterprets Greek mythology. A tragedy of pure love. In a parallel universe, the couple with the same name as the Greek mythological characters suffered a more tragic fate than Hero and Leandre. The story comes from ancient Greek mythology: Hero is the priestess of Aphrodite. Leander swam across the Dardanelles every night to meet her. Hero used a torch to guide Leander every night. On a stormy night, the torch was blown out by the storm. Leander was lost and drowned. Hero was so sad that he jumped into the sea. This fantasy lyrical novel has a special funnel-shaped structure, consisting of two legendary stories. The first half of the book, following the convention of ordinary books, tells the story of Hailuo. Turn over the book and start from the beginning, that is the story of Leander. The stories of these two people are connected together by fragments of Greek mythology. Leander of Pavich was born in the 17th century and was a trader between Belgrade and Constantinople. He was inspired to become a monk, and later he built a magical castle at the Sava Gate in Belgrade and gained great fame. The landscape gradually became desolate as Austrian and Turkish armies looted and burned, and Leander was killed in a bloody battle. The story of Hero took place between 1920 and 1930. It tells the story of a Serbian chemistry student who was eventually killed by her jealous lover. Like Leander, Hero had a premonition of his own death.

It is rare to see an essay with a unique "Japanese flavor" among Haruki Murakami's works. "Adventures in the Wig Factory" is one of the inspirations for "The Journey of Strange Birds". "The Factory in the Land of the Rising Sun" is a collection of essays by Haruki Murakami,\

Drugs are banned repeatedly, poverty is everywhere, and families are falling apart. Why has the street corner become a fate that the poor cannot escape? Corner of Fayette and Monroe Streets, West Baltimore. In this forgotten corner, the "American Dream" has long been fragmented to the point where only a nightmare remains. People pay an unimaginably heavy price for drugs. But at the same time, there is still hope, care and love here. "Street Corner" truly records the anxious story that happened in Baltimore, an inland city in the United States, within a year. It mainly revolves around fifteen-year-old DeAndre and his broken family. It tracks a group of marginalized people struggling for survival, reveals the complicated street corner world, and each vivid image appears in detail. Street corners teem with predators and prey, drug dealers and robbers, as well as a mixed bag of police officers, unarmed drug addicts and innocent victimized passers-by. This documentary chronicles the story of street crime in the inner-city city of Baltimore over the course of a year, capturing an unprecedented view of an America that most people know little about. Through just one street corner, the authors vividly demonstrate how little role law enforcement, moral crusaders, and the welfare system play in a landlocked city like Baltimore. "Street Corners" takes ordinary readers deep into those forgotten corners of the United States to understand what people there think, feel and understand.

"Everything I touch turns to gold. Everything." Auspicious stars are shining. Is this a blessing or a curse? Why do young winners in life choose to commit suicide? From the "American Dream" to the "American Nightmare." Arthur Miller is one of the greatest contemporary playwrights and is known as "the conscience of American drama." This play is Arthur Miller's first play on Broadway. It explores the loss of order and moral collapse during the Great Depression, and asks a question that seems to have no answer - "Is fate fair?" In the eyes of people around him, David Beavers is an out-and-out "winner in life" - he is young, has a happy family, a successful career, and a lot of good luck. All obstacles can disappear in front of him, as if some god has given him the ability to turn stone into gold. However, his auspicious stars constantly reveal the tragedy of those around him, and before he knows it, his path to success turns into a nightmare of doubt. He is struggling to find some clear operating rules in a seemingly irrational universe, and his despair brings him to the edge of madness... The play is permeated by the fear of failure and the guilt of success, which runs through almost all of Arthur Miller's subsequent works. It was through this play that Miller "began to get a taste of what it was like to be a playwright, and maybe even a human being."

An excellent three-dimensional portrait of Haruki Murakami - What kind of person is the real Haruki Murakami? There are real answers here. One of the "Murakami Asahido Series", 51 articles in total. There are 52 illustrations of Anxi Shuiwan. 1. Murakami's family situation, hobbies and habits, early life and creation, interesting anecdotes after becoming famous, etc. 2. Murakami's views and discussions on social issues, such as elections, popular reading, middle age, health, movies, music, etc. Murakami combines his own personal experience with various aspects of the world, and combines narratives and discussions. He is original, humorous, lively, friendly, casual, authentic and credible, reflecting Haruki Murakami's unique unrestrained and whimsical style.

An excellent three-dimensional portrait of Haruki Murakami - What kind of person is the real Haruki Murakami? There are real answers here. One of the "Murakami Asahido Series", 30 articles in total. There are 10 illustrations of Anxi Shuiwan. 1. Haruki Murakami's personal hobbies and habits, such as zodiac signs, when he will end his youth, why he is impatient, what kind of dream lover he has, how he was obsessed with playing pinball machines when he was young, etc. 2. Murakami's various views and discussions on social issues, such as poverty, fame, learning foreign languages, taxis, banks, service industries, advertising, schools, jazz, opera, etc. Each text is short, insightful, humorous and vivid, reflecting Haruki Murakami's unique unrestrained and whimsical style.