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Another Meaning of Happiness

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On the first spring day in Philadelphia, Agatha escaped from prison. At this time, she has been there for 30 years and will be released after serving her sentence in a short time. What made her choose to take the risk of escaping from prison at this time? "The Other Meaning of Happiness" is a road-style novel created by Mark Levy, a wonderful story about love and friendship. The book ranked first in France's annual sales rankings, with an astonishing sales volume of more than 1 million copies in half a year, and was sold worldwide in 49 languages. Writing about the indispensable love and friendship in life, and the pursuit of happiness, freedom and indelible faith, Mark Levy's latest novel perfectly combines exquisite narrative and delicate writing. It is a healing book that awakens inner tenderness.

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General Fiction

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"All Quiet on the Western Front" is a representative work of anti-war novels in the world. It tells the story of the protagonist Paul Boymer and his classmates who were incited by chauvinist education and joined the First World War with "patriotic enthusiasm". During the war, he witnessed the horrific casualties and the devastation of war on the human soul, and witnessed the inhumanity of war. The initial "patriotic fervor" was gone, leaving only pain and doubts about German militarism and the purpose of participating in the war. Clichéd slogans were blown away in a brutal barrage. The idealism of young people cannot withstand the hail of bullets and brutal fighting. Their illusions were shattered. Their only motivation is to survive, and their spiritual support is the friendship formed in the common destiny on the front line. The novel reflects the tragic experiences of a generation of German youth on the battlefield and indicts the evils of imperialist war. This book was translated by Qiu Yuanwei, a teacher from the German Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University, based on the German classic version. The translation is faithful, smooth, vivid and vivid.

Fish Boat·beast Boat

Fish Boat·beast Boat

General Fiction

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121K0

Ocean Chronicles, Artificial Intelligence, Doomsday, Experimental City... Six stories that combine science fiction, fantasy and horror, a collection of classics.

A Million Pounds: Selected Short Stories and Novels by Mark Twain

(us) Mark Twain

115K0

"Millions of Pounds" is a novel by the famous American writer Mark Twain. It tells the story of Henry Adams, a poor clerk, and his adventures in London. Two wealthy brothers in London made a bet to see how Henry would end up within a month by lending him a million-dollar note that could not be cashed. When the one-month deadline came, Henry not only did not starve to death or be arrested, but instead became a rich man and won the heart of a beautiful lady. Mark Twain used a slightly exaggerated approach to humorously satirize and attack the money worship that was popular in society at that time. In addition, this book also includes many satirical and legendary novels such as "Running for Governor". With the help of vivid paintings of the world, it analyzes the weaknesses of human nature such as desire, greed, hypocrisy, suspicion, etc. It serves as a warning to the world, makes people think, and allows us to understand ourselves more objectively, treat our own weaknesses correctly, and then establish a correct outlook on life and values.

Victor Hugo's Literature

(french) Victor Hugo

149K0

As a leader of the French Romantic Movement in the 19th century, Hugo was a highly accomplished Romantic writer in the history of literature. His theoretical texts were not only important theoretical documents of the Romantic movement at that time, but also a theoretical specimen of Romantic literary and artistic thought. They still have significance as ideological materials for us today. "Hugo on Literature" selects eleven of Hugo's literary reviews, prefaces, etc., Which helps us understand the romantic literary movement and this genre, especially the creative method of positive romanticism. Hugo put forward the idea of ​​"beauty serves truth" and believed that the poet's social responsibility is to promote ideals and educate the people. This is one of the differences between positive romanticism and negative romanticism.

Easy to Forget Name

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"Easily Forgotten Name" is the first collection of essays by Kim Ae-ran, a powerful female writer in the contemporary Korean literary world. It presents the author's seventeen-year literary career since she entered the literary world! The writer uses his unique delicate and warm writing style to describe the stories of the people around him, the stories of himself and his loved ones, as well as the stories of forgotten people. The first part is "Call My Name", which includes 16 articles, and contains the author's growth and family stories; the second part is "The Name Called with You", which includes 8 articles, recording the surrounding literary friends and the author's in-depth observation of the surrounding society; the third part is "Calling Our Names", which contains 8 articles, and is Kim Ae-ran's experience talk about creation and literature. Preface by translator Xue Zhou.

It's Summer Outside

It's Summer Outside

General Fiction

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"It's Summer Outside" is Jin Ae-ran's fourth short story collection, which includes seven works in total. Most of the protagonists in the story are experiencing "loss", losing their children, losing their father, losing someone who can communicate with them in their native language... Jin Ae-ran seems to intentionally crush the pain of all kinds of losses and evenly distribute it between the lines, so that the pain hits the readers' hearts from time to time. In this book, the author still maintains his role as an observer and recorder of urban life, and his narrative is plain and close to life. "It's Summer Outside" is the winning work of the 48th Dongren Literary Award, among which "The Silent Future" and "Where Do You Want to Go" won the author the 37th Lixiang Literary Award and the 8th Young Writers Award respectively. This time it is included in the "Collection of Jin Ailan's Works" and Di'an, winner of China's "People's Literature Award·Novel Award", is invited to write a preface.

Selected Novels and Novels by Schnitzler

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As the father of Austrian modernist literature and Freud's "double shadow" in literature, Schnitzler spent his life exploring the human soul. Drama and novels are the two most important forms he uses to realize literary exploration. Schnitzler's representative plays and novels fully embody the innovation of modernist literature, and have made remarkable achievements in the selection of themes, narrative techniques, expression methods and artistic conception. Schnitzler wrote more than sixty novels in his life, including a novel "The Road to the Wilderness". This manuscript selects Schnitzler's four famous short stories "The Story of Dreams", "Ensign Gust", "Miss Elser", "The Dead Speechless" and two early short stories "The Widower" and "The Other Man", from which we can get a glimpse of Schnitzler's novel creation.

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General Fiction

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In Goethe's creation in his later years, novels played an important role. Both novels "Affinity" (1809) and "The Wanderings of Wilhelm Meister" (1821-1829) are Goethe's masterpieces and classic works in German literature. Goethe mentioned many times and in many places that Affinity is his best novel. The story of the novel revolves around Charlotte, Edward, the captain and Ottilie. Charlotte and Edward are a couple who live a peaceful and harmonious life, but everything has changed since the captain and Ottilie came to their manor... Translated from the Hamburg edition of "Goethe's Selected Works", Volume 6, with reference to the Berlin edition of "Goethe's Selected Works", Volume 12.

Best Friend

Best Friend

General Fiction

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65K01

Nobel Prize-winning writer Kawabata Yasunari's masterpiece that will not be forgotten by time is published for the first time in simplified Chinese. Kawabata Yasunari's last novel for girls depicts complex and intimate emotions with the master's delicate writing style. "Best Friends" is a story about two girls who have similar looks. Emi and Kasumi were born on the same day and have exactly the same cute faces. By such a coincidence, the two naturally became good friends. Although their faces and birthdays are the same, their family environments and personalities are completely different. Huimei, the eldest daughter of a well-off family, has a calm personality; Kasumi, whose father passed away, grew up with her mother's pampering, is sensitive and willful. One after another unexpected things happened to them together, and the trivialities and inevitability of these lives made the two closer but also caused differences, and finally ushered in the moment of separation...

I'll Tell the Truth

I'll Tell the Truth

General Fiction

(japan) Yuki Shinichiro

82K01

Shinichiro Yuki, a rising star in the world of Japanese reasoning, sharply explores modern life from the perspective of Generation Z, deeply describing the traps of the Internet age and the horrors of human psychology. Can you see through the "small inconsistencies" and "big madness" hidden in daily life? "Interviews with the Tragedy": A part-time college student engaged in family tutoring noticed "mutations" in a certain family... "Dating App": A father who was worried that his daughter would fall into a social quagmire could not refuse the encounter on the dating app and began to carry out subversive actions... "Pandora": A couple who suffered from infertility finally welcomed their child. At this time, another daughter who claimed that "I was born through your sperm" suddenly appeared. What cruel truth is hidden in Pandora's box? "Triangle": The threesome were in high spirits at a remote reception. Who would have thought that the "reunion" after a long separation would be full of murderous intent... "Please forward": A primary school student who dreamed of becoming a video blogger and grew up on the island was alienated by the islanders after a certain case occurred...

Fantasy: I Was so Happy When I Married for My Brother at the Beginning

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Ye Changsheng traveled to the fantasy world and became the little bastard of the Ye family in Yuhua City. In order to help his eldest brother Ye Changsheng regret his marriage, Ye Changsheng was forced to enter Prince Tianyu's palace. At this moment, Ye Changsheng awakened the invincible son-in-law system... "Ding, it's been detected that the host's wife Ji Lingfei is a peerless empress who has been arbitrary for eternity..." "Ding, on the first day of marriage, the host will receive the Supreme Bone as a reward." "Ding, on the second day after the host's marriage, the host will receive the Chaos Pill as a reward from the system. "Ding, on the third day after the host's marriage, the host will receive the Xuanyuan Sword as a system reward. " "Ding, on the fourth day after getting married, the host will receive the Taixuan Sutra as a system reward. " "Ding, on the fifth day of the marriage, the host will receive the system reward of Ten Thousand Dragons Returning to Origin. " "Ding, on the sixth day of marriage, the host will receive the magical sword from the system as a reward. " ....... Ye Changsheng lay in bed feeling numb. I just want to be a peaceful son-in-law, but my strength doesn't allow it, so I have no choice but to become invincible.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

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A new edition of the "Harry Potter" spin-off book is released, with a new foreword written by J. K. Rowling (in the voice of Newt Scamander), plus 6 new magical animals!

What is the Ming Dynasty: World History and East Asia under "crisis

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With the outbreak of the "Crisis of the 14th Century", the Eurasian world system built by the Mongol Empire disintegrated, and the East and the West separated, gradually evolving into a new modern world order that affects today. The Ming Dynasty that overthrew the Mongol rule established a new East Asian system. After the arrival of the "17th Century Crisis" and the end of the Ming Dynasty, this system was inherited by the Qing Dynasty. What was the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) like, caught between the two major crises of the "late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty" and "the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty"? Apart from the brutal, bloody, conflicting politics, what else is interesting about this period? What deviations occurred in the ancestral confinement system established by Ming Taizu? What impact did the arrival of the Age of Discovery have on China? This book combines a variety of latest research results to make the seemingly "unchanged" Ming Dynasty become more vivid and "interesting".

Those Who Are Not Protected

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Two bizarre murders of officials occurred one after another - they were kidnapped on their way to get off work, their limbs were tied, their mouths were gagged, and they were thrown into an empty house. They were hungry, thirsty, and tortured, but were unable to call for help, and finally starved to death. Intuition told Detective Ji Xiao that this was a vendetta, but as the investigation continued to deepen, the case gradually became more complicated and confusing. Among the people around them, they are "people who will never have grudges with others", good husbands, good fathers, good bosses, considerate, family-oriented, loving to work, responsible... There is almost no possibility of vendetta. Who is the real murderer? Why use such cruel killing methods? Xiaoxiao smelled an unusual murderous intention...

blood and Rust" Classic Science Fiction Series 1: Ocean God

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"Ocean" is the first part of the "Blood and Rust" classic science fiction series. The story is set in a future world where the earth's resources are exhausted and human civilization is in crisis. The protagonist of the novel, Naylor, is a young "shipbreaker" who struggles to survive on a meager income. By chance, Naylor discovers a wealthy young woman named Nita hiding on a stranded luxury yacht. Naylor and Nita gradually establish an alliance that transcends class and embark on a dangerous escape journey. They not only have to face cruel challenges from different interest groups, but also struggle to survive in a world that excludes them. Throughout the book, Bachgalubi uses vivid language and powerful imagination to depict a world devastated by climate change. As a profound and revelatory novel, "Ocean God" shows people the possibility of a future world and guides people to think about the problems existing in contemporary society. This novel is not only a science fiction novel, but also a literary work that reflects social reality and is worthy of everyone's taste and consideration.

blood and Rust" Classic Science Fiction Series 2: the Drowned City

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"The Drowned City" is the second part of the classic science fiction series "Blood and Rust". In a flood-ravaged city, mutant species roam around, and various forces fight each other for resources... The girl Maria, the boy Moss, and the hunted half-orc Tur, who wander in the flooded city, not only have to face the pursuit of government forces, but also face deception and betrayal from within. In this world full of dangers and challenges, they are constantly looking for freedom and truth, trying to find their own way of survival amidst chaos and violence. This book vividly depicts a world in crisis, where people are forced to make difficult decisions in order to survive, and the lines between good and evil become increasingly blurred. The story culminates in a fierce and violent conflict between different forces vying for power and control. "The Drowned City" explores themes such as loyalty, betrayal, and the impact of environmental disasters on human society. It is not only a reflection on the consequences of climate change and environmental destruction, but also an exploration and reflection on how humans respond to these disasters.

Ancient Capital (kawabata Yasunari's Works Series)

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Kawabata Yasunari's timeless masterpiece, a Nobel Prize-winning work, a Japanese literary classic that has influenced countless people. The elegance and sadness of the thousand-year-old ancient capital, the sadness and dreams of the girl, a timeless and cool aria, and the passing of the four seasons weave a beautiful and sad picture of Kyoto's customs. "Ancient Capital" is set in Kyoto, which was transformed between classical and modern times after World War II. It takes the young girl Chieko as the protagonist and tells the story of Chieko's experiences during this year. Chieko, the only daughter of a long-established silk and satin merchant, feels sad about her status as an abandoned child. However, her family's declining business and her father who is escaping from the world make her even more worried. On the night of the Gion Festival, Chieko accidentally met her twin sister Miaozi, a girl who worked logging in a mountain village. Because of the disparity in their identities, the twin sister Miaozi is unwilling to disturb Qianezi's life. In addition, Qianezi's love and marriage are also undergoing subtle fluctuations...

Another Sea

Another Sea

General Fiction

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"Another Sea" is a short story by the famous Italian novelist Claudio Magris. It is an excellent work full of poetry and philosophy. In 1909, the young intellectual Enrique left Gorizia, a city with a mixed population and culture in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and took his ancient Greek texts with him across the ocean alone to the Pampas and lived a life of herding. His closest friend Carlo, a philosopher and poet, taught him to find a true life free from society's lies. But in his search for this unattainable goal, Enrico destroyed every chance of a normal life; thirteen years later, even after his return to the Istrian seaside, his life became increasingly lonely, and his attempts at connection and meaningful love were thwarted.

Chizuru (kawabata Yasunari's Work Series)

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Kawabata Yasunari's masterpiece and Nobel Prize-winning work. The representative works of Japanese post-war literature use words to outline the beauty of color, the centuries-old circulation of an ancient tea set, and a story of abnormal love involving two generations. They show the conflict between love and morality. They also depict the psychology very delicately, showing a scene of extreme beauty and sadness. "Thousand Cranes" is a short story collection by Kawabata Yasunari, which includes "Thousand Cranes" and the sequel to "Thousand Cranes", "A Chidori on the Blue Waves". The story mainly tells that Mitani Kikuharu's father had an affair with a woman named Kurimoto Chikako during his lifetime, and later fell in love with Mrs. Ota, but was alienated from the former because of the latter. Four years after his father's death, Kikuji and Mrs. Ota met unexpectedly at a tea party held by Chikako Kurimoto. Because Mrs. Ota missed Kikuji's father, she actually moved on to his son Kikuji, and Kikuji also accepted this immoral love. However, Mrs. Ota drank medicine and committed suicide out of guilt. Mrs. Ota's daughter Fumiko gradually fell in love with Kikuji during her contact with him. Chikako introduced her female disciple Yukiko to Kikuji and tried every means to bring them together. Wenzi was so ashamed of her mother that she finally left without saying goodbye.

Collection of Palm Novels (kawabata Yasunari's Works Series)

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The condensation of Kawabata Yasunari's literature, a miracle in just one page. Mysterious, illusory, cruel and beautiful. This book selects more than fifty novels: the autobiographical novel "The Bone Picker", which tells the memories of the death of his grandfather; "Glass", which describes the miserable fate of the bottom workers in the glass factory; "Station in the Rain", a sad story caused by the vanity of wives, etc. These novels either show Kawabata's own life as an orphan and the emotional twists and turns, or express his deep sympathy for the people at the bottom, or philosophically think about the psychology of men and women in the world, fully demonstrating Kawabata's rich poetry, fresh and keen feelings, and pessimistic attitude towards life. Among my works, the ones that make people miss and love them the most and the ones that I want to give to others the most are actually these novels. --Kawabata Yasunari

Semiotic Theory (umberto Eco's Works Series)

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"Theory of Semiotics" is the theoretical masterpiece of Italian semiotician Umberto Eco. It successfully constructed a theoretical system of general semiotics. It is the authoritative semiotics treatise after Saussure and Peirce and is highly respected in Western academic circles. The book is divided into five chapters, which respectively elaborate on the basic terms, concepts and theoretical systems of semiotics, and conduct creative explorations of "code theory" and "symbol production theory". This book provides the theoretical community with a classic theory of general semiotics, and Eco's lifelong research and creative path is undoubtedly the best example of the relationship between semiotics and writing, and even literary theory and writing.

Kawabata Yasunari's Best Collection: Ancient Capital

(japan) Kawabata Yasunari

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This book "Ancient Capital" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Kawabata Yasunari. It consists of three stories: "Ancient Capital", "The Ballad of Wings" and "The Flower of Competition". "Ancient Capital" tells the story of the friendship and misunderstanding between twin sisters Chieko and Naeko who grew up in different families; "The Ballad of Wings" describes the emotional initiation process of the girl Lingzi in adolescence; "Blooming Flower" describes the complicated love-hate relationship between three women and Shimura. This book is one of Kawabata Yasunari's masterpieces and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Tragedy of X

The Tragedy of X

General Fiction

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190K06

On a closed and crowded tram, a person was poisoned to death with a strange weapon in full view of the public. It was pouring rain outside, but no trace was left at the scene. Everyone in the car was a suspect, but police could find no evidence. In desperation, the police asked Jerry Lane, the "Emperor of Drama", a retired actor who was proficient in reasoning and human nature for advice. After listening to the police's brief description, Lane immediately announced that he had locked the identity of the real murderer "X", but refused to announce his guess before gathering all the clues. Until on the closed ferry, the murder happened again in front of Ren's eyes. This time, the person who died turned out to be a key witness who claimed to have clues to the murderer... Faced with the murderer's exquisite plan that risked everything, can Renn really lock down the murderer's identity?

Niedochka: a Woman's Life

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In 1848, Dostoevsky began writing "Nedochka". In 1849, he was exiled to Siberia and then interrupted his writing, leaving the novel unfinished. In this book: he writes about a wasted genius, who cannot live his life in vain. If he is decadent for too long, his talent will be taken away; he writes about a arrogant girlfriend, and the friendship established in his youth is more pure and precious than anything in the world; he writes about the growth of a young girl, in order to protect the people she cherishes, cowardly girls dare to stand up. Wang Xiaobo said: "I read this book and have remembered the first half for the rest of my life. I still think this is the best book, worthy of being a major masterpiece. I think people should always commemorate Dostoevsky for it."

Palahniuk on Writing

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This book is a writing memoir by Chuck Palahniuk. In the book, he shares his experience in creating many best-selling books such as "Gut", "Fight Club", and "Suffocation". He teaches serious and practical writing skills through ridiculous stories. It is a rare writing guidance book.

Alexandre Dumas Gourmet Dictionary

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134K0

"Alexandre Dumas' Gourmet Dictionary" is a literary feast made up of entries one by one. Different from the rigid writing method of traditional dictionaries, Alexandre Dumas added a lot of literary factors when making entries. All celebrity anecdotes, myths and legends, jokes, and historical materials related to food are included, which is full of interest and makes people unable to bear to put it down. This book has been widely praised as "good-looking and easy to use". It is one of the few serious food literatures in the West. Its survival value and contribution cannot be underestimated. It is a rare work of French literature and French cuisine handed down from generation to generation.

Heike Story Illustrated Dictionary

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"The Tale of the Heike" is a Japanese war-themed historical novel. It takes the historical chronology as the main axis and from the perspective of the Heike family, narrates in detail the entire process of the Genji and Heike families' struggle for power. This book excerpts and translates the wonderful chapters of "The Tale of the Heike" for readers to read and understand initially; it is also accompanied by a large number of exquisite illustrations, so that readers can have a deeper understanding of the plot of the story more intuitively while reading.

Walden Pond Walden (bilingual Classics)

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"Walden" is a collection of essays written by American writer Henry David Thoreau, which details the author's reclusive life when he lived by Walden Pond for two years, two months and two days. This is a simple, fresh and philosophical book that records the author's unique understanding of nature, society and life, and presents the rich spiritual world of a transcendentalist. The frank brushstrokes reveal a sense of humor, and the deep thoughts shine with the brilliance of knowledge. As a representative work of Thoreau and a classic work of transcendental philosophy and natural literature, "Walden" inspired many important thinkers in later generations. It is deeply loved by readers all over the world and has enduring charm.

Dusk in the Forbidden City (looking at China Through Western Eyes)

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"Twilight in the Forbidden City" describes Johnston's indissoluble bond with China during the special years from 1919 to 1924 at the peak of his life. In the book, Johnston describes a unique picture of life in the strange and closed world of the Forbidden City. Johnston was well versed in Chinese history and culture, so the rich historical details of that almost forgotten era emerged from his writing like a claw in the mud. In addition, his close relationship with Puyi and his personal familiarity with many important figures of that era made Johnston's comments more lively and interesting.

Dreiser Collection (set of 4 Volumes in Total)

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"Sister Carrie": Carrie, an 18-year-old country girl, takes a train to Chicago to find a better life. She met the salesman Drouet on the train. After arriving in Chicago, she lived with Drouet and met the hotel manager Hurst Water through him. Hurstwood became obsessed with her and the two became lovers. In order to get Carrie completely, Hurstwood stole 10,000 yuan in cash from the hotel cabinet and ran away with Carrie. After settling in New York, Hurstwood was unable to be as successful as before, and his situation became worse and worse. He fell into unemployment and became a beggar, and committed suicide; while Carrie left him after getting an acting job in the theater and became a popular actor, but she was not happy. "Genius" is Dreiser's masterpiece. It accuses the destruction of art by capitalist society through the degradation of a young painter. The life experience of the protagonist Eugene Vitra puts forward the relationship between artists - that is, people with special geniuses - and life, and society, and how to reconcile the contradiction between the special sensitivity and special needs of geniuses and the orthodox norms of society. "An American Tragedy" makes a strong and painful indictment of capitalist society through the emergence and disillusionment of Clyde's "American Dream", the formation and development of his egoistic outlook on life and hedonistic thoughts, and his depression, struggle, degradation and destruction. This tragedy is not so much a tragedy of personality and humanity as it is a tragedy of an era and country based on egoism.

Kawabata Yasunari's Best Collection: the Dancing Girl of Izu

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This book is a collection of works by the well-known writer Kawabata Yasunari. It includes seven works: "The Dancing Girl of Izu", "Reunion", "Water Moon", "Beasts", "Flower Waltz", "Celebrity" and "Flowers Never Sleep". His works are widely known, with an ethereal style, traditional charm and great literary quality. Many famous domestic writers such as Mo Yan and Yu Hua greatly appreciate and love Kawabata Yasunari's writings. Among them, "The Dancing Girl of Izu" has a quiet and light tone, which contains a very profound taste of life. "I" briefly met and accompanied the dancing girl Kaoruko and her family, but had no choice but to separate. Fresh and beautiful, a beautiful Japanese-style first love...

Paper Tent

Paper Tent

General Fiction

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"Paper Tent" contains 35 clever female expressions, including thought fragments, poems, fairy tales, micro-novels, etc. Even if she is misunderstood and attacked, Atwood will never stop speaking out about the fate of women and the truth about the world: I cultivated my good voice, made it a cash cow, and made it a bat that sucks my life; when we called my mother home, she became a screaming madwoman, whose life was ruined by accidents in the family; in the wilderness where there was wailing, the female night watchman wrote crazily on paper tents to resist the invasion of monsters. ...

Alhambra Palace

Alhambra Palace

Literature

(us) Washington Irving

201K0

The precipitous and desolate wilderness, the elegant gardens with a southern style, the simple and generous Spanish people, the unique and romantic customs, the myths and legends about the Moors... "The Alhambra" is an essay with both literary value, historical value and collection value. Owen lived here for three months and had in-depth contact with the local residents before writing this masterpiece. This is also the only remaining work on the history and legends of the Moors, and is known as the Spanish version of "The Arabian Nights." If you can only see one attraction in Spain, make it the Alhambra; if you can only bring one book, bring "The Alhambra".

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"The Castle" is Kafka's most distinctive and important novel (unfinished). The work tells the story of the protagonist K. Who applied for a job as a land surveyor in the castle. After traveling long distances and crossing many snowy roads, he finally arrived at a poor village under the jurisdiction of the castle in the middle of the night. In the village guest house, the exhausted K met all kinds of people, all of whom were civilians struggling at the bottom of society. Among them were the owner of the guest house, the landlady, the waitress, and some other miscellaneous staff. Although the castle was within easy reach, he went through all kinds of troubles, even seducing the mistress of Cram, the castle official, but he could not get in. K was exhausted from running around and could not enter the castle until his death. In "The Castle", Kafka describes a desperate struggle in a cold tone, thereby revealing the absurdity, alienation and indifference of the world.

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Literature

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André Gide (1869-1951) was a famous French writer in the 20th century. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. The prose "Grain of the Earth" is an important work by Gide. After expert evaluation, it was selected into the third series of the "Chinese Translation of World Literature Masterpieces Series". The work tells a series of poetic thoughts written by the author in a lyrical way, combining traditional short poems, odes, melody and other forms after traveling 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. This book can be described as Gide's most passionate spiritual monologue, and is regarded as "the Bible of a restless generation." The book consists of eight volumes, one ode, and one message, totaling about 100,000 words.

The Brothers Karamazov (classic Translation by Geng Ji): Volume 2

(russian) Dostoevsky

388K0

"The Brothers Karamazov" is an unsurpassed example of crime fiction. It is Dostoevsky's last novel and his pinnacle. The novel was serialized in the "Russian Herald" for two years and was completed in 1880. Dostoevsky himself passed away just four months after writing this masterpiece. The novel uses a real patricide case to describe the conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, that is, two generations. The old Karamazov was greedy for money and lustful. He monopolized the inheritance left by his wife to his sons, and was jealous of a romantic woman with his eldest son Dmitri. One night, Dmitri suspected that his lover was having a tryst with the old man, so he broke into his home and almost killed the old man. The work shows a moral and human tragedy and embodies the writer's high artistic achievements in his life.

A Sweet Death Dedicated to the Famous Detective

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Kamo Fuyuma, who has experienced the "tragedy of Shino", and Ryusei Yuki, who has solved the "mystery of Yuse Island", team up to solve the case. "Mystery Creator" is a game that uses VR equipment to solve puzzles and solve crimes in the virtual world. After its release, it has been loved by players all over the world and has sold extremely high sales. The game will launch a sequel in the near future. In order to build momentum, the developer Megalodon Games held a trial session and invited eight real-life mystery enthusiasts to participate, including Kamo Touma. The trial session was held at the Megalodon Villa built on an isolated island. Eight participants came in batches. Unexpectedly, something unexpected happened before the game started, and the players became hostages. If you want to save your family and return safely, you must solve the murder case that happened in the real world and the VR world at the same time! The game starts and the countdown begins...

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156K0

Liu Cixin, Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman and other world-class science fiction masters highly praise it, and authoritative international media such as The Guardian, Daily Mail, and The New York Times Book Review have praised it! "Death" and "loneliness" have been hot topics in human history and literature for a long time. However, Lao Lei used humorous language and suspenseful and slightly absurd plot design to eliminate the heaviness of this topic. In the late 1940s, in the forgotten town of Venice, California, a poor mystery writer sat in an empty tram car late at night when a storm hit. Along with the whine of the tram, a drunk man sat behind him, mumbling some words about death, but the writer never dared to turn his head and look at this man's appearance. After getting out of the car, he found a body in the dark canal. Over the next few days, a series of mysterious accidents begin to occur to those around him. The bedridden canary old woman, the lousy hairdresser, the shrewd police detective, the female singer who never opens her door, the little old man with a face like Edgar Allan Poe, the outdated Hollywood actress... In this foggy town, who will be next on the death list? Who is the murderer hiding in the dark?

I Know a Secret

I Know a Secret

General Fiction

J

174K0

The young horror filmmaker is lying on the bed, his posture eerily peaceful. Her arms were at her sides, and she was dressed in black, which made her face look as pale as a ghost. She wore several gold earrings on her ears, and a shining golden eyebrow ring on her right eyebrow. But what caught the attention of forensic doctor Mora was the area under the deceased's eyebrows. Both of her eye sockets were empty, and the eyeballs had been gouged out, leaving only two bloody holes. And in her open palms, there were two ball-shaped objects that made people's hair stand on end. On Christmas Eve, a man was lying on the edge of the pier. He was well-dressed and had a handsome face, like a business elite. However, there were three arrows stuck in his body, so deep that only half of the arrow shafts were exposed. Continuous murders, incredible ways of mutilating corpses, and confusing mysterious hints. Detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Ayres team up again! Sometimes, fiction can tell the truth.

Idiot (classic Translation by Geng Ji)

G

481K0

"The Idiot" is one of the important works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the great Russian writer of the 19th century. The novel is full of explosive suspense and portrays criminals, hypochondriacal patients and idiots completely different from their previous images, making you want to read it. The novel describes Nastasya, a beautiful woman from a noble family in the 1860s who has been ravaged by the landowner Totsky for many years. Later, Totsky was willing to pay a large sum of money to marry her to the despicable Ganya. She was deeply moved by the sudden appearance of the young Duke Myshkin, who was willing to marry Nastasya unconditionally. Although Nastasya loved the prince deeply, she ran away with the playboy Rogozhin on the wedding day and was eventually killed by Rogozhin. The kind-hearted Prince Myshkin was unable to influence or benefit those around him. The novel gives a broad description of the Russian upper class after the serfdom reform and involves complex psychological and moral issues.

Uncle Bangs (classic Translation by Fu Lei)

I

179K0

This book is the last work completed by the great French critical realist writer Balzac during his lifetime. It was translated by Fu Lei. Readers who like Balzac's works should not miss this book. Many scholars at home and abroad regard this work as "Balzac's later masterpiece" and "the highest peak of his art". Uncle Bangs is a musician, an honest and noble self-reliant man who likes to collect famous paintings. When people didn't know that he had all these treasures in his hands, no one took him seriously. After his death, relatives from all walks of life showed their claws and claws in order to snatch the inheritance. Through the description of Bangs, Mrs. Xib and others, this book reveals the social situation during the July Dynasty, when demons danced wildly, good people died tragically, and righteous people remained silent, and lashed out at the shameless creed of "money supremacy" of the financial bourgeoisie.

Ursula Miloët (classic Translation by Fu Lei)

H

140K0

This book is a classic work by Balzac, the great French critical realist writer. It is a novel with a mysterious color, and it is the author's lashing and warning against greed. Readers who like Balzac's works should not miss it. The novel depicts a group of extremely vicious inheritance heirs, depicting how they longed for the death of their uncle in order to obtain the inheritance, eagerly robbed or even stole property when the patient was dying, and even used all kinds of despicable means to persecute a pure and innocent orphan girl in order to enjoy the stolen money in peace of mind. Unlike most stories in Balzac's works, this story ends with good people being rewarded and bad people being punished and changed, which fully illustrates the author's proposition of using religious concepts to curb human depravity.

R

R

General Fiction

K

35K0

If time bends, can I meet myself in my youth? Blurring reality and fiction, exploring the essence of time, and practicing Einstein's theory of space and time in novels. "Bending Time of Krems" is the latest work of Italian writer Claudio Magris. It contains five short stories related to time. The protagonists of each story have different identities. An old doorman who was an entrepreneur in his youth, an old music teacher who met his students, a speaker who met a strange lady, a late-blooming writer, and an old professor who watched youth movies. In each story, the protagonist recalls a certain episode from the past, and everyone searches for time that has been lost and found. Those times associated with life, love and experiences. Time and cause and effect go hand in hand: the cause leads to the result, the effect will become the subsequent cause, and in the end everything will return to its origin.

Night Train (Martin Amis)

(uk) Martin Amis

88K0

The works of Martin Amis, a representative writer in the contemporary British literary world who is as famous as McEwan and Julie Barnes, a naughty boy in the literary world, and a master of style, use detective novels as the shell to explore the issue of "death". Jennifer, the beloved and almost perfect daughter of the police chief, was shot three times and died completely naked. So "I" - the opposite of Jennifer, a masculine and inelegant female police detective Mike Houlihan was ordered by the police chief to conduct an in-depth investigation and clear up the heavy fog. "I" gradually pieced together the truth of the matter... When the female police detective faced Jennifer's "dark moment", why didn't she also face her own secret corner?

Doty (works by Gurna)

Doty (works by Gurna)

General Fiction

H

196K0

The work of Gurna, the 2021 Nobel Prize-winning writer, is a contemporary women's coming-of-age novel comparable to "Jane Eyre". Focusing on identity and racial conflicts, and seeing the big from the small, it presents a vivid picture of the British post-colonial era. The work has skillful narrative skills and a thought-provoking theme. "Dottie" is the third novel in the creative career of the 2021 Nobel Prize winner Abdul Razak Gulna. It is also his only literary work so far with a female protagonist. This work continues the theme of refugees that he has always been concerned about and is good at, accurately depicting the living conditions of African refugees in the UK, focusing on identity and racial conflicts, and showing a vivid picture of the post-colonial era in Britain. Dottie in the story is an African-American woman living in the UK. By recording her interactions with all kinds of people in her life (including relatives, lovers, co-workers, landlords, social workers, teachers, doctors, etc.) - There are both tender mutual comfort and support, as well as profound misunderstandings and betrayals - it vividly outlines the image of a young woman who was born at the bottom of society. In the process of continuous learning, thinking and struggle, she gradually became full-fledged and achieved class crossing. The work's narrative skills are skillful and its themes are thought-provoking. It is a rare and excellent female coming-of-age novel.

New Hamlet

New Hamlet

General Fiction

(japan) Osamu Dazai

216K0

It is a mature work in the middle period of Osamu Dazai's creation. It is an important window to understand the whole picture of Dazai's creation: private novels + ridicule of current affairs + anecdotes + personal beliefs, illuminating the changing things and emotions in the world, and gaining insight into the subtle evil and beauty in human nature. "New Hamlet" is Osamu Dazai's first novel. During this period, he interrupted all other work and devoted himself to it. Later, the eldest daughter was born. This book includes: Cricket, Romantic Lantern, Eight Views of Tokyo, Owl Communication, Sado, Poverty Story, Philosophy of Dressing, Miss Ayu, Chiyoda, New Hamlet, Notes in the Wind, Who, Shame, etc., Showing different aspects of Dazai's literature. Through one farce after another, His Highness Hamlet becomes more and more middle-class; he incarnates Judas, the sinner of the ages, and secretly tells the hidden secret of betrayal that changes the course of civilization. Candles illuminate the changing events and emotions in the world, and gain insight into the subtle evil and beauty in human nature.

Pilgrim's Road (works by Gurna)

H

141K0

The work of 2021 Nobel Prize winner Gurna, a fascinating story about identity, memory and immigration. A tragic song for the dispersed, a "pilgrimage road" for foreigners. Specially included is the unabridged translation of Gurna's award-winning speech. Tanzanian student Dawood came to the UK after experiencing political turmoil in his homeland. For years, he tried to hide his past. But when he meets Catherine, he is determined to tell her about the horrors of his teenage years and the torn feeling of being a "foreigner" in the face of provincialism and racism. Structured as a pilgrimage, "Pilgrim's Way" guides Daoud to immerse himself in the pain and beauty of his past and move forward with a new understanding of his life in exile, a captivating story of identity, memory and migration.

Falling Flowers Are Colorful

(japan) Osamu Dazai

184K0

Transgender writing + reversal novel + epistolary style + anti-secular spirit, Dazai Osamu's questioning of individual self-existence, and tireless exploration and pursuit of novel forms. "Falling Heroes" is a collection of novels written by Osamu Dazai. It was written in a state of chaos during the war. Osamu Dazai wrote in the article "Fifteen Years": "I will not give up writing. Now that this is the case, I will try my best to write novels to the end." There are 14 works in this book, some of which are close to the author. The "private novel" of Ie's true experience describes Dazai's introspection and the psychological process of reconciliation with his family. It also includes dissatisfaction and ridicule of the war, showing a clear-cut anti-war attitude. In addition, there are also anecdotes full of humor, and the redemption and disillusionment of personal beliefs, which comprehensively show the diverse aspects of Dazai in the middle period of his creation.

The Sign of the Bastard (nabokov Collection Iv)

H

142K0

Nabokov's first novel after immigrating to the United States, is known as the exquisite "Hamlet in the low voice". A plague of words, the product of fantasy and weird thoughts; the beating of a heart full of love, tortured after emotions are hijacked; a ridiculous police state, the ignorant and random national character. It is his "creation after six years of adapting to the United States." It is also a masterpiece with exquisite conception and rich language. In the novel, the author fictionalizes an absurd country where people believe in Ecclesianism and pursue a uniform Aite League (ordinary people) life. It is the common character of the people to be ignorant and misbehaved. The protagonist Kruger is an elite intellectual in the country, well-known overseas. The leader Bartuk tried in every possible way to get him to endorse the new regime, but he always failed. Finally, he kidnapped Kruger's young son David and used this small "lever of love" to leverage Kruger. The protagonist eventually went crazy as the tragedy happened. The theme of the novel is the beating of Kruger's loving heart. After his wife died of illness and his son was kidnapped, his strong and tender emotions were tortured - this is what Nabokov clearly stated in the preface that readers should care about and feel.

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