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Streets of Childhood (nordic Literature Translation Series)

(denmark) Tufan Dietlefsen

133K0

It is the representative work of Danish female writer Tufan Dietlefsen and was made into a movie. The story is set in a back-row apartment in the Westbridge district of Copenhagen where the protagonist Esther lives. It tells the story of Esther, who lives in loneliness and darkness, longing to be loved but not knowing how to love, trying to get rid of everything this street has brought to her: loneliness, coldness, poverty and exclusion. But after she was crushed by the happiness she longed for, she returned to the streets of her childhood, palely healing in memories and familiarity.

Felony

Felony

General Fiction

Han Xianxu

227K0

This is a novel about a prison felon who commits another felony. It is the third part of the Chinese prison trilogy "Warden's Notes", "Broken Prison" and "Felony". It is also the most exciting, shocking, soul-stirring and thought-provoking conclusion of the prison trilogy. Dugu Nobuxiong was sentenced to death for drug trafficking. However, he took advantage of his family's wealthy economy and complex social relationships to win over and corrupt a few judicial officials, and changed the death sentence to suspended death during the review of the death penalty. During this period, the delicate and bold operational methods of Sima Jianyu, Linghu Jiayan, Yuwen Xizuo and others deserve our regulatory authorities to be highly vigilant. While serving his sentence in prison, Dugu Nobuxiong refused to repent and pretended to be ill to obtain medical bail. During this period, together with a criminal he met in prison, he kidnapped the president of the bank and murdered him... The story of the novel is full of ups and downs, and you can patiently ponder it. "High Crime" describes and positively promotes the fairness of the law.

Rocky Mountain Storm

Rocky Mountain Storm

General Fiction

Xiaole

496K0

Liu Feng, who likes to be independent and unique, immigrated to Canada with his good friend Zhan Dong, and experienced the most bumpy and glorious life journey in this strange foreign land. All kinds of love, hatred and bloodshed cannot change Liu Feng's feelings for his family and country and his belief in life. He is like a modern Don Quixote. For his own pursuit, he relentlessly launches attacks on the windmills that are impossible to defeat. He uses his blood to leave a strong mark in the history of overseas Chinese. The beginning of the story is as ordinary as that experienced by every ordinary Chinese immigrant. However, Liu Feng's personality destined his extraordinary life. A shocking conspiracy that will change the fate of the entire Chinese ethnic group unknowingly involves everyone in it. Liu Feng is the first to stand at the center of the eye of the storm...

Ivory Dream

Ivory Dream

General Fiction

Zhang Xiao

220K0

In this era of frivolous writing, in my current job role, it is inappropriate and unnecessary to publish a novel written in college. I have no illusions about becoming a writer, nor do I have any ambitions to make a name for myself. After thinking about it, it's nothing more than this: my young self's dream was shattered, and now I accidentally recall it, so I collect the fragments of the dream back then, so as not to feel that I have never had a dream and have always been a realist.

Did We Ever Have This World?

Endorsement

124K0

The content of the novel is basically adapted from real events, some of which are the author's experiences, and some of which are prototypes of characters around him. You Buran, Chen Heng, and Wang Pengcheng are several young people who came to Chengdu from rural areas to work hard. Chen Heng had excellent grades since childhood and graduated from a prestigious university. He could not find a job in Chengdu. Due to his poor family background, he could not find a wife in his thirties. He was desperate for reality and chose to commit suicide. Particularly, he came from a rural family and found a job as a copywriter and planner in Chengdu. At the age of 33, his parents sold iron and steel to give him a down payment in Chengdu and married a second-married daughter, Xiao Jing. Unexpectedly, Xiao Jing later changed her mind and divorced him, leaving her son in kindergarten with You Buran to depend on each other. Although Wang Pengcheng, who made a living through interior decoration, bought a house and a car in Chengdu, and married Bian Ping, a local girl in Chengdu. Unfortunately, Wang Pengcheng was deceived by profiteer Sun Fugui because he contracted the project. Sun Fugui ran away, and Wang Pengcheng lost more than 400,000 yuan. Just when Wang Pengcheng was sad, his wife Bian Ping was caught and raped in bed by Wang Pengcheng, which triggered a divorce storm. Especially because he was divorced by his wife Xiao Jing, he felt unhappy, was absent-minded at work, made mistakes, and was fired from the company. I interviewed for many jobs, but none were satisfactory. Later, under the introduction of his friend Wang Pengcheng, he met Li Kunqiang, the vice president of Linghang Real Estate, and became involved in workplace politics. When I first joined Vanguard Real Estate, I was stabbed by a man and hospitalized for intervening in a neighbor's domestic violence. I almost lost my life. Just as he was recovering from his injuries, his grandmother passed away again. You Buran witnessed family conflicts and the ugliness of human nature. In the face of money, people do not recognize their relatives. You Buran's grandmother left with regrets. Her favorite son was unfilial. She was so heartbroken. Just when You Boran was frustrated in his life, he met his classmate who he had a crush on in high school. Fortunately, this female classmate he had a crush on was not married either, and the two cherished each other. In the end, what kind of pessimistic life will they stage in the city of Chengdu...

Golden Boy

Golden Boy

General Fiction

Xiao Jianbo

151K0

In the late 1970s, it describes the unfettered childhood life of a group of children in a county-owned enterprise. The hero and heroine are a pair of cute little friends, childhood sweethearts. Due to the limitations of the times, there is a lack of medical treatment and medicine. In order to cure the disease and save lives, the girl's father vowed to conquer rabies. Because of the naughty male protagonist, the girl's father accidentally invented toad tallow soup, which achieved amazing therapeutic effects, and people came in droves to seek treatment. Unexpectedly, the so-called therapeutic effect was the "masterpiece" of a wandering "madman". The medicinal soup invented by the girl's father had no effect. In the end, the girl's father's beloved daughter tragically died of rabies.

Negative Relatives

Negative Relatives

General Fiction

Xian Weiqin

101K0

This book is adapted from a true story. It is based on the male protagonist (the author's father) in an ordinary rural family in the south who has been gambling full-time from the beginning of the 21st century to the present. It mainly explains that the author's father worked hard and struggled for everything in the family from the age of 25 to 33. This family composed of the author, father, mother and brother also saw a bright future. However, after the age of 33, the father's life took a complete turn due to gambling, and he changed from a negative life to a negative one. The responsible father gradually transformed into a negative parent who failed everything and was heavily in debt. His gambling and personality changes for more than ten years also brought huge physical, psychological and financial losses to his wife and two sons. Members of the family fell ill one after another, which again brought great harm and challenges to the family. Later, the negative parent tried to transform and become a father again, but failed. After that, he could only choose to continue to be a negative parent.

Shining Footsteps

Shining Footsteps

General Fiction

Nianzi

290K0

In the winter of the Cultural Revolution, a long march team composed of junior high school students, carrying luggage on their shoulders, set off from the campus in western Shanxi and arrived in Beijing via Yan'an, Shaoshan, Jinggangshan, Shanghai and other places. They crossed plateaus, drilled ravines, crossed the Qinling Mountains, went up to Taihang, braved cold winds, braved heavy snow, endured hunger, stayed in snowy fields, lived in cold rooms, squeezed into trains, tortured their bones and muscles, and sharpened their will. They received revolutionary traditional education, visited pagodas, Zhazi Cave, the Zunyi Conference Site, Shaoshan Mountain, climbed Jinggang Mountains, and paid homage to revolutionary pioneers; they received cultural influence, visited universities, exhibitions, and classical architecture; they learned about nature and humanity, visited mountains, rivers, and lakes, and appreciated the beauty of local customs; they learned about the cultural revolution situation in various places, and visited cultural revolution leaders.

After the Plague

After the Plague

General Fiction

Writing Books For Beauty

183K0

If life could be repeated, I believe many people would choose a different way of living. When he was seriously ill, when his adopted daughter stabbed him with an awl, when the little black wolf choked him and bit him, when his nephew shot him with an arrow. Before he died, Lu Zuozi reviewed his life and felt that he had not done anything harmful to nature. Although he had regrets, he could face death calmly. After a plague, the fate of many people was changed! He feels worthy of the living people, but what about the people who died because of him? He had no choice but to go to Jiuquan and ask for forgiveness! Life is a journey of experiences and memories - after experiencing the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, China was deeply baptized by the scars left by gunfire and gunpowder smoke.

Hua Nian

Hua Nian

General Fiction

Nianzi

297K0

A group of students with a working-peasant atmosphere entered the university to study Chinese language and literature. They are energetic and enterprising, learning from books, society, workers and peasants, and are determined to shape themselves into new cultural people. In terms of ideological concepts and learning methods, some students have differences with department leaders and school leaders. Especially when it comes to running schools open, they have sharp conflicts with each other. Students have different interests. Those who like worldly affairs pay attention to the current situation, those who love knowledge devote themselves to learning, and those who are willing to create devote themselves to writing. Traveling between campus and society, you may be rich in knowledge, creative, or in love.

Blue Letterhead

Blue Letterhead

General Fiction

Nianzi

262K0

Zhao Wen, a college student, walked out of the landlord's courtyard and went out to make a living. He first joined the army, then abandoned his gun and went into business to work for a powerful man. He often went out shopping, traveled between Xi'an and Shanghai, had several adventures, and wrote letters to say goodbye to his wife. Zhao Wen changed his name and changed his surname, but no news was heard from him. His parents, wife and son went to Xi'an to look for Zhao Wen, but they never met. Zhao Wen went to Chongqing to make a living, and then moved to Taiwan to seek a future, during which time he married two women. My wife works hard at home and earns a good fortune. In order to avoid being searched by his family, Zhao Wen moved from Taiwan to Australia. His grandson followed his father's will and went to Australia to search. After not contacting his family for many years, his wife and mother were worried about him, so his son went to Australia to search...

Night Patrol

Night Patrol

General Fiction

Yufeng

140K0

"Night Patrol" is a new novel by Shanghai's emerging writer Yu Feng. When the young man from the mountain village woke up, his fiancée Wu Sanmei ran away with the collector. The young man who drove the cattle frantically cut a meadow of tall grass and still couldn't understand his hatred. His cousin persuaded Jia Niu to work as a handyman at the Jinhe Nursing Home on the outskirts of the metropolis. Jia Niu came to a strange world: the old men and women in the hospital were all still energetic, and they were doing things every day, which gave his cousin, who was the general manager of the nursing home, a headache. Jia Niu is a "little mute" who doesn't like to talk, and the female dean needs an inconspicuous "little country bumpkin" like him. She secretly tells Jia Niu to be a spy in the courtyard, especially to pay attention to what the old people are doing at night. Jia Niu thus became the night watchman of the nursing home. He had rock climbing skills developed in the mountains: a "night monkey" climbed on the outer wall of the nursing home and looked around, with curious eyes looking at the secrets of this small world that had been hidden by the night for a long time. Secrets cannot be scrutinized casually. He fell into the whirlpool involuntarily and watched helplessly as the waves surged in the nursing home. If the female director is also an old man, then the other old people can only be regarded as cash crops in the nursing home. A series of accidents turn into surprises, and the truth slowly emerges from the sea like a whale...

As Wished

As Wished

General Fiction

(myanmar) Deqin Miaodan

131K0

The Burmese novel "Wishful" (formerly known as "The Happiest Day") is the representative work of Burmese writer Deqin Myotan. It is a realist masterpiece that truly records Burmese society and the lives of Burmese farmers. It is deeply loved by the Burmese people. The book is based on the history of Myanmar from the period of British colonial rule to the period of Japanese fascist rule and then to the early days of national independence. The protagonist, Uncle Great, is a representative of the honest, simple, hard-working and brave Burmese farmers. Against the background of the era of resistance to colonial rule, resistance to imperialist aggression and resistance to feudal oppression, Uncle Dawei's small family experienced joys and sorrows and finally reunited; he and his three children also went from not understanding each other to finally reaching an agreement. The great uncle finally realized his dream and set out with his children towards a happy life of building a new countryside using science and technology.

Shimmer

Shimmer

General Fiction

Cui Junjuan

167K0

"Glimmer" tells the story of the protagonist Cao Jun chasing his dream and growing from a young man in a small town to a real writer with his family and country in mind. The novel does not blindly describe the protagonist Cao Jun's passionate dream pursuit, but uses this as the main line, supplemented by the "secrets" that he and his parents keep silently, and the stories behind the "secrets". The mystery is set up at the beginning of the novel. As the story develops, the fog gradually clears, the truth is revealed, and the characters become more fleshed out. The overall tone is compact and steady, the plot is unconventional, and it is positive yet interesting. It is a good inspirational popular book.

Tea Boat Route

Tea Boat Route

General Fiction

Hu Wuquan

155K0

In 1943, tea farmers Pan Laohan and Pan Chunmiao, their father and daughter, transported a shipload of Liubao tea from the ancient tea ship route to Wuzhou City. Unexpectedly, Pan Chunmiao was betrayed by the traitor Zhang Jiucheng when she met with her fiancé, guerrilla leader Liu Longping. Later, Pan Laohan and Liu Longping's father, tea merchant Liu Fuyuan, were captured by the Japanese. In order to rescue Old Man Pan, the guerrillas attacked a tea party held by the Japanese. However, due to being outnumbered, Old Man Pan died heroically. Soon after, Liu Longping was captured because Yang Laifa, deputy captain of the guerrillas, surrendered to the enemy. In order to cover the safe retreat of the team members, Liu Longping was captured. For this reason, Pan Chunmiao and guerrilla Wu Bilian dealt with the enemy elusively again and again, staged scenes of guerrilla warfare that frightened the enemy.

A Deep Pool Wandering in the Sky

Joan

70K0

Lufeng Group, where Xu Shan works, is in a critical period of internal transformation and change and unclear external market trends. Under heavy pressure, this company not only did not retreat, but soared against the wind. It is precisely because of innovators and brave people like Xu Shan that it can lead the company to a better future and provide good service guarantees for the realization of the Chinese Dream.

Quiet Canal

Quiet Canal

General Fiction

Li Jibin

271K0

Landlord Liu Shaotang bought the beautiful Wu Yingyue from Nanjing Yichun Hall with half a pocket of ocean and married her into his second wife. Because of Wu Yingyue's beauty, she attracted the covetation of Zhu Chengguo, nicknamed Zhu Baldzi, a bandit across the river. The story begins with a lot of contradictions. The work tells the story of a village built along the Grand Canal: Liu Village during the Republic of China. There are more than a hundred households in the village, and the four major clans of Liu, Wang, Zhang and Ni, as well as scattered families with small surnames, live here. They have lived on the canal for generations. As the saying goes, they rely on the mountains to eat and the water to drink. The quiet Grand Canal has become the lifeblood of their lives.

Enclosed Building Gun Hole

Su Jingwen

179K02

There is a clan named Xie in the Hakka mountainous area. The sage clan leader Xie Motan and the family general Xie Mohe (actually they are brothers) reclaimed farmland, built water conservancy, guided the tribesmen to plant rice, went to the mountains to make paper, and transported by land to Nanxiong, a commercial town at that time. County transactions, felling trees, and waterway discharge to Zhenjiang Commercial Terminal for Shaozhou transactions, leading family armed forces, using the benefits of building enclosures to fight against bandits, and support the customs of the tribe; donate money to support the war of resistance, lead the tribe, and avoid Japanese pirates. Xie Deren (nickname: Big Dog), the eldest son of family general Xie Mohe, has been troublesome since he was a child and has always been causing trouble. When he was in school, he got into fights with children with other surnames and dropped out of school. When he grew up, he caused clan conflicts and was hired by the patriarch Xie Motan's family. From then on, the grudge between the two deepened. Once when he went to the hot springs in Nuanshui Village, he met the gangster Deng Tiaoshan. He accidentally killed a policeman and was forced to go up the mountain. He became the second master of Huangshitou Village. At the request of his younger brother Xie Deyi (nicknamed Ergou), he rescued the wounded Red Army soldiers left behind during the Long March. During a robbery, he met Yan Runyu, an underground member of his dream lover. Under the influence of Yan Runyu, he actively moved closer to our underground party. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, due to the special geographical location of Huangshitou Village, it was split. Half of them followed Big Dog and were recruited to Quannan County, Jiangxi Province as security police, while the other half followed Deng Tiaoshan and were recruited to Shixing County, Guangdong Province. The fate of the two teams was different. Big Dog led his men, kept a low profile and bought a lot of guns and ammunition left over from the Japanese army for our army. Deng Tiaoshan's team became prisoners. On the way to be imprisoned in Quannan, Deng Tiaoshan was shot during the rescue by the guerrillas and died of excessive bleeding. The Big Dog team became our army's internal support and assisted the People's Liberation Army in successfully attacking the city. However, on the way to Guangdong, he was ambushed by the enemy. The brothers he brought down from Huangshitou were seriously injured and died, which dealt a huge blow to Big Dog.

Deng's Shop

Deng's Shop

General Fiction

Li Yixuan

187K0

This article, "Deng's Shop", reflects the changes in society through the life experiences of two generations of the Bai family. The protagonist Bai Zifu is a veteran. The day he returned to Deng's shop, he fell in love with Qiu Shui, a fishing drum player, and thus had an emotional entanglement with Deng Chuan and the others that was constantly being resolved and confused. Another protagonist, Bai Xisheng, was born because of opera. He has a calm and steady personality, loves traditional opera culture, and is determined to contribute to the development of opera. However, with the development of the times, various forms of entertainment have emerged one after another, and traditional opera has gradually been forgotten. He struggled hard, but still couldn't resist the trend of the times, so he had to follow the villagers to the city to work. "Deng's Shop" reflects the changes in people's spiritual pursuits in the changing times. "Deng's Shop" is a reminiscence of the past, a spiritual history of several generations.

Longmen Town

Longmen Town

General Fiction

Ge Yichen

87K0

The story takes place in a place called Longmen Town during the Republic of China. It tells the story of the growth of four young people. The people here have been repeatedly bullied by the overbearing police chief Xiang Heng. Among them, the proud young master Long, who always wins, always wins every gamble in the casino. However, he cannot extricate himself after falling in love with a brothel girl, and eventually makes an irreparable mistake, which finally puts him in a desperate situation. At the same time, Yang Xiaoxing, who was deeply pressed by life, was favored by Feng Shao, the owner of Sanxing Tower, for winning the title of Longmen's No. 1 Warrior. Then Feng Shao, the owner of the casino, used Yang Xiaoxing to eliminate his enemy Xiang Heng. As a result, Yang Xiaoxing was promoted to the position of the new police chief of Longmen Town by Feng Shao, but Yang Xiaoxing slowly changed because of his pride in good times. There is also a man named Qin Cang in the story who was repeatedly denied despite his great ambitions. In the end, Long, who was extremely disappointed, finally cheered up with the help of Hong Keyi. He established the Dragon Head Society and worked with Qin Cang and others to break the gloomy rules of Longmen Town and free the people here.

Remember the Hibiscus in My Hometown

Wheat

207K0

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Cao Enzhu, a famous rice paper maker in southern Anhui Province, took over the legacy of his ancestors and vigorously transformed and innovated rice paper, making the formula of the secret medicine of rice paper more precise and making rice paper in short supply. The key to rice paper technology is the secret medicine of rice paper. The protection of the Cao family through generations of beheadings and bloodshed has kept the secret of rice paper secret from the outside world. Therefore, the core technology of rice paper production has always been controlled by the Cao family. But Ye Hezi, Cao Enzhu's concubine, was an ambitious person. In order to steal the secret rice paper medicine, she did not hesitate to kill the eldest lady and her stepdaughter Mu Jin. For this reason, she launched a series of struggles and persecutions, causing Mu Jin to be reduced from a lady to a paper flower child. In the process of using sandalwood bark and grass as raw materials for paper, we realized the essence of human beings. People are like green sandalwood bark. They must be broken down and raised to ashes before they can be deposited into paper pulp. Finally, they become rice paper that will not decay for thousands of years, carrying history and culture, and human value can be reflected. Based on this understanding, Mu Jin abandoned her hatred and the secret of paper medicine, built a rice paper town, and allowed Zhi HuaZi to live in a decent house. Merchants from the south and north flocked to her place, and Mu Jin passed away peacefully after fulfilling her wish.

Looking South to the Pearl River Estuary

Zeng Zeng

236K0

The story took place in the early 1990s, when China was in the midst of a booming period of reform and opening up to work. In a mountain village in southern Gansu, Jiangxi, three young people, Zeng Yuming, Liu Ning and Xie Pengfei, who were born on the same day, same month, and same year, got married on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival. After that, they left the mountain village one after another and joined the torrent of reform and opening up.

Princess's Marriage

Princess's Marriage

General Fiction

Patong

330K0

In the late Qing Dynasty, the most beloved daughter of the young, beautiful and knowledgeable Sixth Prince struggled to break class stereotypes and marry a commoner. In the chaotic and dark age of warlords, the humble fate of the coachman actually occupied a place!

Man's Way

Man's Way

General Fiction

Han Haoyue

95K0

This book introduces what men in today's society must do. Well worth a visit.

As Time Goes By, I Am Afraid of Being Urged by Teenagers

Xu Peng

124K0

This is a contemporary campus novel about university, family, society, loyalty and reflection. In the novel, there is Zhang Yang who has lofty ideals and flamboyant personality, there is a girl who is as simple as pure water, there is Li Xiaohui who never reads but holds a copy of Shakespeare all day long, there is Xu Yan who has low self-esteem due to his family environment, and there is Xu Dachuan whose family is extremely rich but cannot have freedom. These people are all singing about youth without regrets. Each person in the novel is a piece of text, and the author writes this piece of text to tell us a story about youth. And through the various detailed descriptions of the protagonist, it reflects the real living conditions of contemporary Chinese college students.

The World Leaves You Wandering Alone

Sun Leda

213K0

The generation born in the 1980s started working, buying houses, marrying wives, and having children. Although Wen Chenyong, who has passed the age, has pursuits, he lives a different life from ordinary people. As a child during the family planning era, he was not favored at home and was often ignored by his family, which developed his withdrawn character. Hallucinations often appear in his eyes, and he sees a world that is different from ordinary people. In order to pursue his world, he deviated from his normal life, gave up his home and studies, and met Qiu Li and Heizi, who were marginalized by their families and society just like him.

Love is Forever: a Girl's Calling

Ge Shengjie

68K0

This book uses the style of a novel to describe the different family tragedies of three girls. They all experienced painful lives due to their parents' discord and divorce. This book is written by a young author. She uses her sincere writing style to call on people to cherish family, cherish family ties, and cherish all the love in the world.

Who Rang the Bell for Class?

Yu Li

137K0

This book is a work that focuses on education. The novel takes the experiences of young female substitute teacher Ye Xiaofan as the main line, and leads to a series of joys and sorrows, and thought-provoking stories. Because his marriage was on the rocks, Ye Xiaofan went south to Shenzhen and became a substitute teacher. During his days as a substitute teacher, Ye Xiaofan experienced various shocks and shocks. The game between quality education and exam-oriented education, the difficulties of curriculum reform, personnel disputes, identity anxiety, emotional confusion, etc., Personal destiny is closely integrated with this city. This book takes a unique approach, writing from a female perspective, with warmth and kindness. Although there is exposure, there is also praise.

Pain in the Strait

Pain in the Strait

General Fiction

Yang Shaoheng

243K0

"The Pain in the Strait" is the first full-length novel to directly address Taiwan's political situation. Du Ronglin, a Communist soldier who fought bravely in the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, and devoted himself to peace construction and reform and opening up. Luo Jin, a defeated soldier who fled Taiwan, became a mainland spy, and a crazy bandit, eventually became a Taiwanese businessman who actively invested and set up factories in the mainland. They once met on a narrow road and fought to the death with swords and guns. In the end, because of the common children, common blood, common culture, and common future, they shared the same blue sky over the strait, and shared the same blue sky over the strait. There were so many blood and tears, so much love, and so many thrilling stories! The author is pursuing: What kind of strait is the Taiwan Strait? Is it a natural geographical strait or a national soul strait? The author provides a conclusion: the Chinese people have the pain of cutting their wrists, but they will never suffer the pain of breaking their arms.

W

W

General Fiction

H

114K0

110th anniversary commemorative edition of William Golding, Nobel Prize winner for literature and author of the novel "Lord of the Flies". A monster spire that can never be completed, an obsessive and confusing sacred dream, a masterpiece of philosophical fiction where absurdity and reality intersect. "The Church Spire" is Golding's important masterpiece, which deeply explores the intricate mixture of human faith and despair, ideals and reality. The novel tells the story of Patriarch Jocelyn of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary who truly felt the call of the Lord, asking him to build a church steeple as high as four hundred feet for the glory of the Lord. He naively believed that as long as he was "pious" and had a firm "will", God would definitely help him build a spire that reached heaven on the ground. This grand construction without a foundation ended in failure. In "Church Spire", Golding places the hope of mankind in seeking an ideal state, and also reveals the real living conditions in which ideals are eventually shattered; noble aspirations and ugly reality, the struggle for good and sinful desires are intertwined; through the intertwined images of absurdity and reality, and the artistic technique of using both symbol and metaphor, the author profoundly reveals the truth of human nature and society.

V

V

General Fiction

H

117K0

This is the 110th anniversary edition of Nobel Prize winner William Golding's collected works. Golding's controversial semi-autobiographical novel explores the pain of growing up in a sonata-like structure. "The Pyramid" is a highly controversial and important work by Golding, and its interpretation and evaluation have always been divided. It changes Golding's famous allegorical style and is regarded as a semi-autobiographical novel that reflects the pain of growing up. It deeply explores how love is possible in a dark human nature and world. In the author's opinion, a child's retina is a perfect video recorder that can leave an indelible impression as long as it is given interesting or exciting stimuli. Based on this impression, the novel is divided into three parts, which respectively intercept three fragments of the protagonist Oliver's life: the summer when he was eighteen years old, the first vacation at Oxford University, and the revisit to the old place when he was forty-five years old. The structure of the novel is modeled after Beethoven's sonata, which is extremely artistic and profound; and the theme that shines brightly on the spire of the pyramid built by Golding is "love": if the heart has love, it will live, if there is no love, it will die.

W

W

General Fiction

I

191K0

A collection commemorating the 110th anniversary of the birth of William Golding's important masterpiece, Nobel Prize winner in Literature and author of the novel "Lord of the Flies". Using Golding's representative symbolic techniques and allegorical novel style, it continues the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness in "Lord of the Flies". Golding's masterpiece uses symbolism, formal symmetry, philosophical exploration, and even religious mysticism to depict the evil of modern man. Winner of Britain's historic James Tait Black Memorial Award. "Dark Revealed" is Golding's important masterpiece and won the James Tait Black Memorial Award, Britain's oldest and most prestigious literary award. Maddie is an orphan who survived the bombing of London during World War II. Although she miraculously survived, her body was burned. Destined to suffer a lifetime of pain, Maddie became a wanderer, searching for unknown spiritual salvation. There is also another pair of twin sisters, Sophie and Toni, the former indulges in sexual sadism and the latter is involved in political violence. When another fire comes, their fates collide... This is a dark book illuminated by fire. The struggle between good and evil that continues from "Lord of the Flies" is placed in a modern context by the author, which is also mixed with religious fanaticism, terrorism, abnormal psychology and sexual behavior, and desperate attempts to escape from the world. The novel profoundly reveals that the "darkness" of human nature not only exists deep in people's hearts, but also exists in the external modern world: "You have nowhere to escape."

W

W

General Fiction

I

103K0

A controversial work by Nobel Prize winner William Golding, a "dark version" of desert island literature, was selected into the "Western Canon" by the famous 20th century literary critic Harold Bloom. A profound novel that explores the evil of human nature and whether the soul can ultimately be redeemed. "Pincher Martin" is an important masterpiece by William Golding. It is a masterpiece that deeply explores the evil of human nature and whether the soul can ultimately be redeemed. The book tells the story of a low-ranking officer named Christopher Hadley Martin on a British naval escort fleet during the Second World War. His warship was hit by a torpedo, and he was washed up on a rock in the ocean by the waves. He fought desperately for survival alone in the harsh environment, and eventually died. However, it is not until the end of the story that the author reveals to the readers in an unexpected way: Martin's torture on the rocks is actually just the suffering of a sinful soul in purgatory. The author wants to use this to warn mankind that if you persist in your own greed and sin, you will eventually fall into hell and never recover; and only by destroying the human nature of greed can your soul be expected to undergo the baptism of purgatory and be finally saved.

Unicorn

Unicorn

General Fiction

(uk) Alice Murdoch

170K0

"The Smartest Woman in Britain" is the early masterpiece of Alice Murdoch, the most nominated writer for the Booker Prize. It has a gloomy and unique style, full of mysterious imagination and existential philosophy. A kaleidoscope of ever-changing sexual relationships, a beautiful young woman imprisoned for seven years, an evil husband who pursues the same sex, a cowardly and voyeuristic old lover... Everyone in this book is involved in sin, and everyone is waiting for the final judgment to come. "The Unicorn" ostensibly tells a sophisticated, mysterious gothic romance. The protagonist Hannah was first a vicious adulteress who committed adultery with others and pushed her husband off a cliff. Then she transformed into Jesus Christ, who carries the imagination of countless people, has no desires and desires, is willing to bear all sins, and is willing to sacrifice his life for the world to atone for their sins. And when the savior suddenly turned into a real individual because of her husband's imminent return, an evil woman who committed adultery and tried to murder her husband, the spiritual castle in the air created by her and everyone's imagination about her collapsed instantly... The whole book has twists and turns, vivid and even romantic and mysterious stories, and is also enveloped in a religious and philosophical atmosphere where everything is unpredictable and everyone is absurd, which is both fascinating and thought-provoking.

Fist

Fist

General Fiction

He Dacao

53K0

"Fist" begins with a deep-seated martial arts legend and several passionate campus martial arts competitions. The ignorant young man embarks on an unknown journey to find the master - the anonymous teahouse master, the innocent and honest young girl, the mysterious Zen Master Wenhai, who is the invincible martial arts master? Which one is stronger, Chinese martial arts or Western boxing? Which one is more important, the strength in the hands or the strength in the heart? In the end, an unexpected and reasonable competition was staged... "Spring Mountain" and "Fist", one text and one martial art, one ancient and one modern, imbued the author's nostalgia and aftertaste of youth, friendship, era, hometown, and thinking and understanding of the mystery of martial arts, traditional culture, and life choices.

The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence

General Fiction

(british) Maugham

210K0

Charles Strickland is a British securities broker with a successful career and a prominent family. What puzzled everyone was that in middle age, he suddenly abandoned his wife and children and came to Paris penniless to study painting. In a foreign country, he was poor and sick, but he became more determined and persistent in his dream. After experiencing various bizarre encounters, he came to an isolated island in the South Pacific, married a local girl, had children, and successfully created a series of stunning masterpieces. At this moment, he was struck down by terminal illness and blindness. Before he died, he made an astonishing decision... The protagonist of this novel is based on the famous French painter Gauguin. The novel mainly expresses the contradiction between dreams and survival, the contradiction between responsibility and self, and the contradiction between genius and madman. "There were six pennies all over the ground, but he looked up and saw the moon." Charles has been pursuing a kind of pure and shocking beauty throughout his life. Perhaps this kind of beauty is the real value of life. May you and I both be the ones who always chase the moon.

The Princess in the Country of Men

Tan Tan

215K0

Autumn, harvest season. The golden autumn brings so much joy and happiness to people, and leaves so many beautiful memories! However, the shining jasper also has flaws, and autumn is not all a picture of a good harvest.

Winding Mountain Road

Winding Mountain Road

General Fiction

Tan Tan

83K0

Through the description of the life experiences of an ordinary rural woman, Jin Zhu, "The Winding Mountain Road" praises the pure soul and noble moral character of rural women and lashes out at the forces of social habits.

Maiben Sanbu's Favorite Things

I

86K0

Don't think about the vast world, just live for yourself. Being able to be yourself is really a rare and happy thing! Every moment of life is ordinary but also special, because we are new ourselves every moment, and it becomes interesting to experience the progress of life over and over again. The main character, Mimoto Mibu, is a twenty-year-old girl who works in the university library. I like to stay in bed in the morning, like cheese cakes, Polumeng snacks, and books. Others around her described her as "always in a daze", "always eating like crazy", "a little fool", etc. However, Sanbu is very good at connecting the things he likes in his normal daily life, making his life dazzling and enjoyable. This kind of three-step makes people feel very friendly. From the world of three-step, we can see the purity and touch that we don't notice in daily life. Perhaps, those lives that seem boring at first glance are shining brightly every moment if we look at them with a microscope.

There is Nothing That Grandmas Cannot Find Out: Hello, Who Are You?

Mega Slope

187K0

During the autumn tiger season, Li Guozhen, a resident of Tiantang Street Community, was crowding at the vegetable market to buy shrimps when he once again received an erroneous missing person call. It turned out that her mobile phone number once belonged to a girl named "Gong Xue". The repeated inquiries calls and concerned birthday greetings made Mrs. Li suspicious: Will Gong Xue encounter something unexpected? Li Guozhen, who is nosy and gossipy, decided to mind his own business and called in his old sisters - Mrs. Xiang Ying with amazing observation, Mrs. Xie Defang with poor eyesight but good popularity, and young errand boys Shi Dacai and Liu Zhenbang. They started a tortuous journey to find the girl Gong Xue. And the truth of an incident that had been buried for years or even decades was revealed bit by bit during this seemingly "nosy" investigation... The story observes various aspects of society through the perspective of the protagonists' grandmothers, and provides guidance with the mentality of "experienced people". The little adventures triggered by "meddling in other people's business" are the spices that enrich ordinary life. The light suspense narrative combines comedy elements, which is not only exciting but also filled with laughter, and the laughter is heart-warming. He extends his brushwork to the corners of life, including residential areas, streets, vegetable markets... Seemingly ordinary scenes are filled with disparate joys and sorrows of life. The novel has an exquisite narrative structure like "Skyscraper", and the warmth of people helping each other is glimpsed in the mystery.

Call from Heaven

Call from Heaven

General Fiction

Luo Yang Deji

139K0

This book is a contemporary novel. It tells the story that in the mid-1960s, a group of Shanghainese came to Sherba Town, Linzhi, Tibet during the country's "Third Front Construction" and established the first modern textile factory in Tibet. Among them, Master Xi Fugen's daughter Xi Lili fell in love with a Tibetan young man, Tashi Phuntsok, in college. They got married and had children in Lhasa, and lived a happy life. It shows the Tibetan life of ordinary workers during the construction of New China in the 20th century. They loved their family, their country, their party, and their people. In the tide of the times, they used their own experiences to compose a life picture of national unity, and praised the contributions of ordinary people of that era to the country.

Jianwen

Jianwen

General Fiction

Lin Nabei

172K0

This book is a novel with heavy themes and twists and turns, describing a legend that happened in Fuzhou in the 1930s and 1940s. Buried in a courtyard in Zhuangyuan Lane next to Three Lanes and Seven Lanes is the legendary bronze sword used by Gou Jian. Countless masters in the world have tried to find it. Before the twelfth lunar month of 1935, the Li family in Zhuangyuan Lane suddenly married the second daughter of the Wu family. The disparity in family status between the two families aroused heated discussions in the city. After the bride Wu Zichen married into the Li family, she secretly dug through the wall of the new house at night and took away a sword. This triggered a series of life stories full of love, hatred, and national and family affairs.

Daughter's Fragrance

Daughter's Fragrance

General Fiction

Ge Shengjie

147K0

This book consists of three short stories, each describing the different family tragedies of three girls. They all experienced a miserable life due to their parents' divorce. The author uses smooth and emotional writing to call on people to cherish family, cherish family affection, and cherish all the love in the world.

The Lobster of Wuchou River: a Day Reading (collection)

Huang Yongyu

318K0

"The Lobo of the Wuchou River" is a series of novels written by Mr. Huang Yongyu. "Day Reading" is the third part of the series of novels "The Lottery of Wuchou River" written by Mr. Huang Yongyu. It describes the protagonist Zhang Xuzi who experienced eight years of arduous life on the move and finally ushered in the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. In order to find a way out, he bid farewell to his newlywed wife and ventured into Shanghai alone. Amidst the gunfire of the victory of the Liberation War, a group of progressive artists pursuing revolution were energized with hope, passion and took action. The novel follows Xuzi's footsteps, from Shanghai to Taipei to Hong Kong. Xuzi and his artist friends live a difficult life while looking forward to welcoming the arrival of a new world. The novel shows the lively appearance of a group of woodcutters, poets and writers in the late 1940s, as well as the special customs and social life forms of various places.

Collection of Chasing the Lost Time (volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 5, Selected Books)

K

1.4M0

"In Search of Lost Time" is a novel written by the 20th century French writer Marcel Proust and published between 1913 and 1927. This is a novel that is different from traditional novels. The book consists of seven volumes, with the narrator "I" as the main body, integrating what he sees, hears, thinks and feels. It is not only a true description of social life and human relations, but also a record of the author's inner experience of self-pursuit and self-understanding. In addition to narrative, it also contains a lot of reflections and discussions. The whole work has no central character, no complete story, no ups and downs, only plot clues throughout. This set of books includes the first volume, the second volume, the fifth volume and selected works translated by the famous French translator Mr. Zhou Kexi.

Longjing Lane

Longjing Lane

General Fiction

Tang Yulin

329K0

The novel is based on Tongren, an important town in eastern Guizhou, and takes the 1960s as the time background. It depicts the experiences and fate of Fang Jizhi, Shangguanya, Liu Li and other characters, and narrates that unforgettable, sad and thought-provoking vicissitudes of life. The novel is very readable, with big stories embedded in small stories, interlocking and advancing layer by layer, which has a strong appeal. At the same time, the author's portrayal of several characters in the book is also vivid and has a certain depth.

Guangming Xing

Guangming Xing

General Fiction

Yu Tongyou

145K0

This is a long novel that expresses social life in urban and rural areas. The novel tells the story of restless young people in Wazhuang who wandered outside and finally found a career in the city. However, driven by desire, they are lost in power and try to combine capital with power to realize their dreams. Their dream is to save the countryside single-handedly, but little do they know that in the process of saving, they have already committed crimes. They are unable to save rural civilization and even commit suicide. The novel depicts how a group of people, that is, the pioneers from the countryside, entered the city in the past thirty years, and how they both wanted to save but also voluntarily fell. It can be seen from this that the current spiritual dilemma encountered in the process of urbanization in China provides a perspective for thinking.

Father Who Went to Ancient Times

Yu Tongyou

219K0

The main content of "Father Who Goes to Ancient Times" includes the father who went to ancient times; reincarnation; Titanic; the vixen on the ceiling; the warm pit; the other West Lake and Xiaoqing; see you later; the seventieth day; the nose; white snow crows; fighting yellow; Chaimen hears dogs barking; two grandeurs; Old Wei is coming; the man who paints fire; there are poems as evidence; overnight stay; the gray horse in the foggy moon; Thousand-Armed Avalokitesvara; sending the sun to Wusha Town.

Ching Lang Street

Ching Lang Street

General Fiction

Tang Yulin

253K0

This book takes Tongren as the center, taking the fate of Yang Gongwang, his wife Yunxiu, and his son Yang Zhong as the main line, showing the social life of Tongren from the 1920s and 1930s to the late 1940s. Tongren is an important town on the border between Guizhou, Hunan and Sichuan. Warlords from all walks of life fight here, the Red Army operates here, and bandits are rampant here. This is not a paradise, but a constant commotion. The picture of historical life painted by the author is clear and vivid. This book has rich plots but clear organization; there are many characters, but they are all vividly depicted, leaving room for readers to think and ponder, making it highly readable.

Curly Hair

Curly Hair

General Fiction

Chen Jiangong

274K0

Beijing is a famous historical and cultural city with a history of more than 3,000 years since it was founded as a city and more than 800 years ago as a capital. It not only has world-renowned cultural relics, but also has a profound cultural heritage. Beijing culture has given birth to generations of writers. Their creative lives are closely related to Beijing, their creative ideas are closely related to Beijing, and their works have become an important part of Beijing culture. It should be said that "Beijing-style literature" is not yet a mature concept. What is "Beijing-style literature"? There have always been debates and disagreements about whether there is "Beijing-style literature", as well as its scope, etc.

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