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Continuing the cultural context of thousands of years, weaving the magnificent fantasy of today's people. Produced by the "Unicorn Book Series" and edited by Earl E, the "Fantasy Mirror" series is committed to discovering outstanding original authors of great fantasy literature, continuing the traditional context of ancient myths, Tang and Song legends, zhiyi notes, etc., Absorbing nutrients from modern and contemporary Chinese and foreign science fiction, fantasy, and fantasy works, and comprehensively showing the diverse styles of today's fantasy literature. "Fantasy Mirror: A Thousand Years of Strangeness" contains 11 novels, 2 literary reviews, and 16 illustrations. There are adaptations based on the classical texts "Journey to the West", "Jizhong Zuoyu", and "Legends of the Tang Dynasty" stories, as well as brand-new works with the temperament of strange stories. Anyone who opens the pages of the book can fall into the mirror of beautiful fantasy.

Interpret Chinese myths and legends and weave the magnificent fantasies of today's people. Produced by the "Unicorn Book Series" and edited by Earl E, the "Fantasy Mirror" series is committed to discovering outstanding original authors of great fantasy literature, continuing the traditional context of ancient myths, Tang and Song legends, zhiyi notes, etc., Absorbing nutrients from modern and contemporary Chinese and foreign science fiction, fantasy, and fantasy works, and comprehensively showing the diverse styles of today's fantasy literature. "Fantasy Mirror·Myth Changes Today" contains 4 novels, 2 literary reviews, and 16 illustrations. There are the idiosyncratic personal histories of Fu Xi and Gou Mang, the science fiction retelling of Jingwei and Zhinu, and the imagination derived from fragments of history books of Xia and Shang... May anyone who opens the pages of this book fall into the mirror of beautiful fantasy.

In this way, he missed four consecutive hints from fate, but the hints from fate were false. Destiny would only send out hints if it was determined that he could not see it. He now saw the hypocritical smile on the lips of fate through the windowpane of the trial hall. --Page 147 of this book Yu Hua's "Destiny" book, from which the writing theme of "destiny" is established. Destiny always bullies the weak and avoids the strong. If you don't accept fate, you will win! This book contains four novellas, "Accidental Events", "The World Is Like Smoke", "Doom Is Unavoidable" and "Trembling", which present Yu Hua's thinking about the world and his concern for destiny. From then on, Yu Hua established the writing theme of "destiny". If I could sum up the theme of all my creations in one word, it would be destiny. --Yu Hua

"Wandering" is Lu Xun's second novel collection, which includes a total of eleven novels written from 1924 to 1925. The writing period of "Wandering" coincided with the ebb of the May Fourth Movement, and divisions occurred within the New Culture Movement camp. On the one hand, the author "felt lonely" and "desolate" because he "became a wanderer and could not form an array", but on the other hand, he "summed up past experience, looked for new comrades, and deployed new battles." "Wandering", which came out under this background, compared with his first collection of novels "The Scream", "Although the technology is better than before, the thoughts seem to be less restrained, but the will to fight is much colder." "Wandering" is full of concern for the peasants and intellectuals living under the heavy pressure of feudal forces who "sorrow for their misfortune" and "are angry for not fighting". The artistic techniques of "Wandering" are "sophisticated" - the profound and broad historical picture; the narration of the characters' fate permeated with emotions; the line drawing method of "drawing eyes" and "soul hooking", and the plump characters are of typical significance.

This manuscript is a collection of short stories by the famous modern literary writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke. It is the fifth of his eight short story collections published from 1917 to 1927. It contains a total of 18 short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, including "Aryu and the Children", "Autumn", "Omo no Shinichi", "Dance", etc. These works have their own characteristics in terms of subject matter, content and artistic conception. Ryunosuke Akutagawa is a well-known Japanese novelist and a representative writer of the new school of thought. His creations have both romanticism and realism tendencies. His works are widely known and have wide influence. They are well-known in China and have literary value. His literary creation has influenced a large number of domestic writers including Lu Xun and is a treasure in the field of short stories.

This book is the last volume of the complete set. It contains the last published works of Akutagawa Ryunosuke and his unpublished posthumous works. There are thirty-two short stories in total, most of which are later masterpieces of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, such as "The Ten Yuan Bill", "The Half Life of Oshimaji Shinsuke", "Horse Legs", "Niti", "Hunan Fan", "Spring Night", "The Ghost Book" and "Xuankaku Sanfang". "Yoyouso", "Kappa", "Kosenya", "A Fool's Life", etc., The contents include: "A Fool's Life" is a posthumous autobiography of Akutagawa Ryunosuke, describing his life in fifty-one fragments; in "The Ghost Book", Akutagawa Ryunosuke analyzes his family relationships and expresses his complex emotions towards his parents and adoptive parents; etc. In these autobiographical short stories, Ryunosuke Akutagawa analyzes his life and explains his views on art and life.

Her style, wild and free, combined with multiple elements, is similar to the birth of a new breed. It not only breaks away from the boundaries between good and evil, but also transcends ethnic groups and genders; it has the original vitality rooted in the land of its hometown, and it also has the precision and solidity accumulated from personal fieldwork; it not only uses anthropological insights to hunt reality, but also incorporates fan fiction, fantasy, suspense and other types of literature to increase the level of fiction. Ten short stories, ranging from the fantasy dreams of youth to the reality of grief and death as an adult. A hunter who goes to the mountains and seas in search of stories, the first work of the new generation writer Qiu Changting opens up a mysterious country where reality and fantasy coexist, wild and magnificent.

"Even with the Weakest Light" is Cui Enrong's latest collection of novels, including a total of seven works. The work takes women as the center and focuses on the intense, long-lasting and tough complex relationships between women. With gentle and fresh words, he captures the violence and resistance that are ignored under the calm water. The women in the story fight against similar fates and become each other's support. In the many cages that want to oppress and imprison them, they resolutely carry out mutual rescue and support - the female teacher who uses her own clothes to help the female students during their menstruation in "Even with the Weakest Light", the company female employees who silently listen to each other's concerns in the cold and unfair workplace in "One Year" Seniors and interns, the sister in "Reply" who chooses to protect her sister from domestic violence even though she is in jail, and the aunt in "Letter to My Aunt" who has lost her fertility and endures the glare of her family but still devotes herself to raising her niece... They are close and distant, relying on each other and independent of each other, like small light spots flickering face to face, telling the trembling and touch of finding the same kind in the dark night. They were infinitely close and then suddenly drove to different distances. In the end, they could only reconcile each other with light across a long distance. Even if they never met each other, even if they were extremely weak, as long as they knew that the other party existed somewhere, they could keep walking.

The only full-length novel "Bright Night": I think of the unknown women who once lent me their shoulders. Someone must have lent their shoulders to them. The pioneering short story collection "The Harmless Person to Me": Are you that person who thinks you are kind and harmless, but is actually indifferent and cruel? "People Who Harm Me" contains eight works. The much-anticipated latest short story collection "Even with the Weakest Light": Some people only accompany me for a part of the journey, but their light shines with them for the rest of their lives. "Even with the Weakest Light" is Cui Enrong's latest collection of novels, including a total of seven works. The work focuses on the intense, long-lasting and complex relationships between women. The women in the story fight against similar fates and become each other's support. They firmly carry out mutual rescue and support in many cages that want to oppress and imprison them.

This book is a collection of short stories and a collection of Kerouac's series of travel-themed articles. Some of the articles included are unpublished manuscripts and are a retrospective of Kerouac's important journeys for most of his life. He traveled to the United States, Mexico, Morocco, France, the United Kingdom and other places. He went to work on railways, cargo ships, deep mountains, and between cities. He chatted and played with people in New York, visited churches and museums in Paris, and stayed overnight in huts and villages in small towns in Mexico. Under the sky of a past without a beginning and a future without an end, he understood death, experienced the huge emptiness of life, and a world filled with roses of happiness. It vividly shows the life of an independent, educated but penniless prodigal who lives all over the world. The background of this life is always loneliness. Kerouac said that the scope and purpose of this book is only poetry, or, in other words, description of nature.

This book is a collection of Dazai Osamu's short works in his later period of creation, including "Cherry", "Viyong's Wife", "Wish Fulfillment", "Girl Disciple", "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji" and more than ten works. It basically covers the living conditions of various people in the depressed social environment of post-war Japan, and provides a profound reflection on women, family relationships, social atmosphere, etc.

This manuscript contains two collections of Lu Xun's "Blessings" and "Jiji Ji". "Blessing" contains 11 novels written by the author from 1924 to 1925. Among them, "Blessing" is one of his masterpieces. In the 1920s, China's people, especially farmers, were increasingly impoverished. They lived a life of hunger and cold. Patriarchal concepts and feudal ethics were still a spiritual shackles weighing on the people. Therefore, in his work "Blessing", he profoundly showed the true appearance of China's rural areas during this period. "The Collection" contains 17 essays written by the author in 1927.

This manuscript contains Lu Xun's three collections of works: Wild Grass, Erxin Collection, and Huagai Collection. "Wild Grass" is Lu Xun's only collection of prose poems. Written in 1925. The work uses subtle symbols to express the loneliness, confusion and fear of an Enlightenment thinker fighting alone under the white terror. It also expresses the disappointment and hope for the people who "live in confusion and die in a mess". The biggest feature that distinguishes this work from other works of Lu Xun is that it contains profound philosophy and contains all of Lu Xun's philosophy. The Erxin Collection contains 36 essays written by the author between 1930 and 1931, and the Sequel to the Sequel to the Huagai Collection contains seven essays written by the author between 1926 and 1927.

The manuscript of this book is divided into three parts: "The Scream", "Pseudo-Freedom" and "Quasi-Feng Yue Tan (Excerpt)". Among them, "The Scream" contains 14 novels written by the author from 1918 to 1922. These novels truly depict the social life from the Revolution of 1911 to the May 4th Movement. Starting from revolutionary democracy, with the purpose of enlightenment and the spirit of humanitarianism, they reveal various deep-seated social contradictions, conduct a profound analysis and relatively complete negation of China's old system and outdated traditional concepts, and show a strong sense of worry for national survival and a strong desire for social change. "Pseudo-Freedom" contains 42 essays written by the author from January to May 1933. "Quasi Feng Yue Tan (Excerpt)" contains 8 essays written by the author in 1933.

This book contains two classic works by Lu Xun, "Diary of a Madman" and "Hot Wind". "Diary of a Madman" is the first short vernacular diary novel written by Lu Xun and the first modern vernacular novel in China. It was written in April 1918. This article first appeared in the monthly magazine "New Youth", Volume 4, Issue 5, May 15, 1918, and was later included in the collection "Scream". "Hot Wind" refers to a collection of essays written by Lu Xun from 1918 to 1924. At that time, China was in its darkest era, and many people with lofty ideals and benevolence were exploring the root causes of social ills. There was ruthless indifference and affectionate irony in the cultural circles.

"Hometown" is a short story written by the modern writer Lu Xun in 1921. The novel takes "my" activities of returning to my hometown as a clue, follows the plot arrangement of "returning to my hometown" - "being in my hometown" - "leaving my hometown", and based on what "I" see, hear, remember and feel, focusing on the characters of Runtu and Yang Ersao, thus reflecting the rural bankruptcy and the painful life of farmers before and after the Revolution of 1911. At the same time, it deeply points out that due to the influence of the traditional concepts of feudal society, the spiritual constraints of the working people have caused the distortion of innocent human nature, resulting in indifference and isolation between people. It expresses the author's strong dissatisfaction with reality and his strong desire to transform the old society and create a new life. This book also includes a collection of correspondence between Lu Xun and Xu Guangping from March 1925 to June 1929 - "Book of Two Places".

"New Stories" contains eight short stories written by Mr. Lu Xun between 1922 and 1935 based on ancient myths and historical legends. It was first published by Shanghai Culture and Life Publishing House in January 1936 and listed as one of the "Literary Journals" edited by Ba Jin. "New Story" is different from "The Scream" and "Wandering" in terms of material selection and writing method. Mr. Lu Xun himself believed that this was a collection of "myths, legends and historical facts".

This book brings together classics and opens a window to world literature for high school entrance examination students. Among them, in "Jane Eyre", the orphan Jane Eyre has gone through ups and downs since childhood, but she always pursues equality and true love. She is self-respecting and self-respecting when facing love, and resolutely leaves Rochester after discovering that he has a crazy wife, showing her independent and strong personality. "How Steel Was Tempered" takes the Russian October Revolution as the background and tells the story of Paul Korchagin's growth from the bottom of society to a communist fighter. He persisted in creating despite hardships and injuries. His steely will and persistence in his ideals are moving. These two works, one highlights women's independent pursuit, and the other interprets the tenacious revolutionary spirit, can both bring valuable spiritual nourishment to students and help them sprint for the high school entrance examination and personal growth.

This book contains 15 of Maupassant's masterpieces, including "Ball of Suet", "The Necklace", "My Uncle Jules" and other classic works. With his scalpel-like precision, this French literary giant cut through the gorgeous cloak of French society in the 19th century and revealed the most authentic appearance of human nature. In his writings, a necklace can mortgage ten years of youth, a prostitute is more noble than a gentleman, and family love can be measured by money. Maupassant used concise and powerful words to build a world that is both real and profound, making each story a mirror that reflects human nature. These works, created more than a hundred years ago, still shock readers with their sharp insights and eternal themes of human nature, traveling through time and space and touching people's hearts.

[Exquisite novels + realistic literature + women's literature + emotions + local literature + marriage urging + marriage views] "Good Days": Zheng Changfeng came to Ward 102 and met Tian Qiming, a male superior who once felt sorry for him. Tian Qiming not only made things difficult for women in the workplace, but also treated his wife Tang Shuqing badly during marriage. So Tang Shuqing often called Sister Meng, the nurse, to slap Tian Qiming's mouth. Each of the three women has a story behind them. Combined with the current female issues, they collided with various sparks. Finally embark on a new journey together. "Orange": Why hasn't that crazy woman in the village moved away? "Nvshuang": Marriage is a time when women are in a daze. "Shengun": Hey, I, Old Snake Wang, can tell at a glance that this woman will get divorced three times.

This book contains more than 70 short stories written by Northeastern writer Situ Xiuhui, most of which have been published and won awards. With the theme of "promoting truth, goodness and beauty, and opposing fakeness, ugliness and evil", the author focuses on social hot spots, such as "A Bowl of Mung Bean Soup for a Thousand Yuan" explores the value of traditional medicine, and "True and False Business" criticizes the bad habits of following etiquette. The language of the work is simple, borrowing from O. Henry's structure but seeking novelty and change, creating a distinctive image of a small character, and integrating ideological and interesting elements into the ups and downs of the plot. A profound understanding of life and a deep concern for society can be seen between the lines.

This is a collection of women's works written by a male writer. It can be called the history of struggle and emotion of several generations of Chinese women since the reform and opening up. Every vivid female image written by the writer is a real person and has a real existence. They are skillfully interspersed with real details and fleshed out in fictional plots. They come to you one after another with a hot and burning feeling, which makes people unable to avoid or escape. It encourages me to have the courage to live for me.

In the ten years from scratch to possessing three identities, the author has experienced the joys, sorrows, joys and sorrows of life. He has condensed these ten years and these eight words into a book. He uses ridicule, amusement, thinking and other methods to tell readers that he, like everyone else in the world, is just a speck of dust on this vast planet, longing to shine brightly one day.

This book contains 40 novels by the author, with themes covering all aspects of life, including rural and urban themes, migrant workers, civil servants, doctors, teachers, businessmen, etc. The author strives to promote truth, goodness and beauty, and combat falsehood and ugliness in ordinary stories in real life. This artistic expression runs through the entire work. I hope readers can get a useful enlightenment after reading this, which is the author's original intention.

The collection of novels includes 15 short stories, 9 of which have sold film and television rights, and have attracted top-tier Hollywood studios and producers, including Paramount, Netflix, Apple, Lionsgate, Amblin and other companies, as well as "Stranger Things" producer Sean Levy, "The Sinner" Jessica Biel, "WandaVision" screenwriter Mackenzie Dole, etc. Among them, "Backwards" is a flip of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button", telling the story of a woman who rebuilds her relationship with her long-estranged father, but every day they spend time together, he becomes ten years younger. In "The Nest", the mother who committed suicide at a neighbor's house continues to appear in the lives of everyone around her as a strange image. In "Welcome to Niutou Town", a high-end gated community encounters a power outage. As a result, the parents of every household automatically shut down their phones and fell to the ground. It felt like a children's version of "The Copy Wife". The novel has an ingenious conception, a changing narrative, and a rich sense of imagery. There are various narrative methods, and narrative techniques are consciously explored.

This manuscript is a collection of novellas with realistic themes, including four novellas by Mr. Zeng Xianguo, namely "Labor Pain", "Big Brother", "Qiu Fen Becomes a Mother" and "Repaying Debt". These articles have been published in well-known domestic literary publications such as "Red Rock", "Selected Novels" and "Contemporary". This collection of novels pays attention to the living conditions and spiritual world of ordinary people, and its meticulous observation of ordinary people and affairs constitutes the unique textual tension of the work. It writes warmly and plainly about the world.

Mao Dun: a famous modern Chinese writer, literary critic, cultural activist and social activist. His representative works include "Midnight", "Spring Silkworms", "Autumn Harvest", "End of Winter", "Lin's Shop", etc.

This book selects and compiles the author's 16 legendary short stories and short stories, totaling 200,000 words. The novels are rich in content. Some of them praise the fighting spirit passed down from generation to generation in the old revolutionary base areas, some praise the pure and beautiful love of the younger generation, some tell the mythical hunting stories of the older generation of mountain people, and some depict the deeds of rural intellectual youths who dare to explore and carry out scientific production... Reflecting the lives of the people at the bottom of our country in the 20th century from all aspects. The novel has beautiful writing, fresh style, unique subject matter, vivid characters, and a twists and turns of the story, which is vivid and fascinating.

Nineteen-year-old rising literary star Wei Ziyang is here with his masterpiece "JAC Soul Family" which took him a year and a half to work on! "Jianghuai Soul Family" is a heavy novel collection. It includes five novels written by Wei Ziyang before he was 20 years old, including the novel "Jianghuai Soul", the novellas "Corpses Everywhere" and "Hundred Days", and the short stories "Eating Human Shadows" and "Cancer". What kind of profound understanding of life and world can a nineteen-year-old have? Wei Ziyang will give his answer! In the novel "The Soul of Jianghuai", Wei Ziyang takes us into the turbulent years of the Republic of China from the perspective of an onlooker; in "Bodies Everywhere", let us fully appreciate the shock and charm that magical realism brings to us! This is a novel and unique reading experience; in "Cancer", let us, as sober bystanders, think deeply about life... What is the purpose of living? Wei Ziyang gave the answer: "Everyone lives just to live."

"Lily Nian Nian": This is a story that runs through the love, hate and resentment of two families and two generations. Zhao Zhiguang and Xu Fengming broke through all kinds of constraints and fell in love sincerely in a special era and special circumstances. However, due to a strange combination of circumstances, both of them suffered misfortune. More than twenty years later, outstanding young men Geng Xinghui and Zhao Ruxin fell in love, but at a critical moment they learned the mystery of their life experiences, which was like a bolt from the blue. Fortunately, the two young people not only inherited the older generation's excellent views on marriage and love, but also had a better mind and vision than the previous generation. Not only did they get out of the predicament themselves, but they also relieved their parents from their ideological confusion. "Oath to Be the First to Break the Ice": Jiangcheng, swept by the economic tide, driven by interests, tilted educational resources towards "key" schools, and the school-choice and tutoring habits... Have become more and more intense; Jiangcheng No. 10 Middle School has just been separated from the key middle schools, and is full of contradictions, stretched, and struggling. Li Muping, who had been a "left-behind" principal for three years, was appointed at a critical moment. He brought his own thoughts and ideas about education: to allow every child to enjoy the right to equal education and every student to have the opportunity for a truly quality education. He went through all kinds of doubts, difficulties, interferences, and impacts, and overcame unimaginable difficulties. During this period, he almost encountered "annihilation", and finally won the understanding and support of his surroundings and achieved initial success.

This book contains a total of 31 short stories and short stories by Akutagawa Ryunosuke. "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thereby showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying the author's understanding of human nature. The plot of this work is simple and the language is concise. Although it is a historical novel based on old themes, it is endowed with a certain meaning and describes the people at the bottom of society who are tenaciously struggling to survive. It is not a historical novel in a simple sense. We cannot judge whether everyone's choice is absolutely right or wrong. We should treat the choice of survival and human nature rationally. Everyone may have been to Rashomon. The whole book depicts the contradictory relationship between survival and human nature, and each novel is thought-provoking.

"In Prime Minister Fei's Living Room" is a satirical novel, which is included in the anthology "Jane Dropped from a Dangerous Nest". The story takes the living room of the philanthropist Prime Minister Fei as the core scene. Through a hypocritical "philanthropy" performance, it exposes the greed and moral decay of the bureaucratic class during the Republic of China. On the surface, he talks about morality, but in fact, he is greedy and greedy, forming a strong contrast overtly and covertly. Also included are "The Gills of the Iron Fish" and "The Three Doctors". "The Gills of the Iron Fish" is set against the backdrop of the Anti-Japanese War and tells the tragic story of Mr. Lei, a scientist, who saves the country through science and technology. "The Three Doctors" is included in the novel collection "Humans Are Not Human". It describes three doctors who returned from studying abroad and exposed the hypocrisy and academic corruption of intellectuals in the Republic of China.

A selection of Hu Yepin's short stories include "Pearl Earrings", "Parents", "Snow-White Parrots", "Fighting" and "A Village". The Pearl chapter is about the concubine of a rich gentleman's family who lost her earrings. Before going to bed at night, they discovered that the pendant was missing, and the whole family went out to help his wife find the pearl pendant. Finally, the youngest and helpless boy was arrested and sent outside to be beaten. The master, his wife and all the concubines were very satisfied with this ending. The parents' chapter tells the story of the protagonist being laid off. The parrot chapter is about a parrot that is used to being kept at home and refuses to fly away no matter what. The two chapters, Fighting with Arms and A Village, are very miserable. They are the two heaviest chapters in the entire collection. They were born in an era when wars are raging and safety is worth ten thousand dollars. You have no control over your own destiny. Life and death are random. Sometimes it's a village, sometimes a village is missing. The wheel of life continues. The complete collection is arranged in a progressive manner. Life has its bitterness and sweetness, and more often than not, the bitterness is overwhelming.

"Collection of Yu Dafu's Classic Novels" collects classic short stories by Yu Dafu, an important writer of modern Chinese literature. Yu Dafu is a pioneer of the May Fourth New Literature Movement and one of the founders of modern Chinese romantic literature and autobiographical novels. His novels are famous for their sentimental lyricism, self-exposure, and delicate psychological descriptions, which profoundly reflect the spiritual dilemma and depression of the times among Chinese intellectuals in the early 20th century.

This book is a collection of short stories published by Beauvoir in 1967. Among Beauvoir's published essays, novels, autobiographies and letters, it belongs to her later creation. The three short stories collected all have women as the protagonists, which can be said to be the three types of women's experiences in modern society. Among them, "The Age of Sensible" tells the story of middle-aged professional women's dissatisfaction and anxiety about themselves, their husbands, and their son's marriage and career prospects; "Monologue" is the whole story of a single mother, and underneath the neurotic words is the pain of her little daughter's suicide; "Exhausted Woman" uses the form of a diary to show the psychological journey of a housewife coping with her husband's extramarital affair. Beauvoir depicts three women in crisis: one considers herself a good mother and tries to control everything; one is full of resentment and worry about her family and children; one is abandoned by her husband and is at a loss as to what to do.

This book is a collection of short stories by Brazilian literary giant Joao Guimaraes Rosa, including 21 stories. This was created after he suffered a serious illness, which gave him a new perception and mentality, giving the work deeper philosophical depth and literary expression. The stories in the book go beyond superficial narratives. Rosa uses perceptual thinking and philosophical writing to vividly present the glory and shadow of the human heart. Each story focuses on daily details and small moments, containing huge turning points in life. Rosa's works are like a door leading into the fog, leading readers through the wilderness and suffering in the hinterland of Brazil, revealing the complex emotions and philosophical propositions of human beings between the extreme and the ordinary.

This book collects thirty-two short stories about myths and legends that the author has published in newspapers and periodicals across the country, including "Condor Porcelain", "Bleeding Teapot Lid", "Savage Racing Camel", etc. The work is written fluently, and through myths and legends, it educates the world and inspires positive energy.

I'm not a criminal at all, and my cat knows it. But who would believe it? Ai-chan couldn't speak. I could only explain it over and over again, but they didn't listen at all. Well, let me tell you again. My name is Li Weijun, and my cat's name is Ai Jiang. On the day of the incident, this was like this--

This book is a collection of short stories, consisting of 27 short dialogues between mythological characters. It is a strange book with a special form and a representative work in the collection of Pavese's short stories. Through dialogues between characters from ancient Greek mythology, the writer talks about universal experiences of the world: childhood, family, sexuality, poetry, love, struggle, failure and resistance. The selected mythological characters are closely related to the author's personal troubles, interests, and concepts, and are his Jungian prototypes and poetic endorsements. One reference for this book is Leopardi's "Moral Pieces" (19th-century Italian poet and philosopher), but "Dialogues" focuses more on mythology than philosophy. In his interpretation and rewriting of traditional mythology, Pavese presents fundamental themes such as fate, tragedy, childhood, and failure. These mythological characters are closely related to the author's personal troubles, interests, and concepts, and are his Jungian prototypes and poetic endorsements.

This book is a collection of Niu Bocheng's works, including short stories and short stories such as "Flu", "Water Glass on the Bed", "White Wall", "Dry Desire", "White Circle", "Flies", "Roman's Equation", and "Wandering Soul".

This book contains four of Kawabata Yasunari's late masterpieces: "The Lake", "Waltz of Flowers", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Arm". In the late period of Kawabata Yasunari's creation, the themes of his works became more bold and the thoughts he expressed became more profound. "The Lake" reveals the loneliness that cannot be cured throughout a person's life, and all pursuits and longings are nothing but sorrow and illusion; "Waltz of Flowers" expresses the author's belief in art through a lingering and pathos first love; "Sleeping Beauty" and "Arm" embody Kawabata's unique thinking on the philosophy of life based on the Eastern cultural tradition. Although the content is absurd, it is full of Zen principles. The inclusion of Kawabata's late masterpieces in one book reflects the literary professionalism of People's Literature Publishing House in selecting the collection of Kawabata Yasunari's works. The translator of this book, Chen Dewen, has been immersed in the translation of Japanese classic literature for many years. He not only has a special liking for Kawabata Yasunari's writings, but also has many years of painstaking research, making him the best choice to translate Kawabata's works. In this publication, the text has been revised again to make it more concise and elegant.

This book contains four of Kawabata Yasunari's most famous masterpieces, "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital", "Thousand-Feathered Crane" and "Hachidori". Kawabata Yasunari is the first Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. As a national professional publishing house for domestic literary publishing, People's Literature Publishing House publishes Kawabata Yasunari's anthology, which also reflects the professionalism of literature. Kawabata Yasunari has many works, so the selection and collection of texts are very important. The "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital" and "Thousand-Feathered Crane" selected in this book are not only Kawabata's representative works, but also spanned the author's prime period of creation in terms of creation time. From them, we can see the essence and peak of the author's creation. "Hachidori" is in the same vein as "Thousand-Feathered Crane" in terms of content, allowing readers to have a more comprehensive understanding of Kawabata Yasunari's works. This kind of arrangement is not found in other anthologies. The translator of this book, Chen Dewen, is a senior Japanese literature translator who graduated from Peking University's Japanese major in the 1960s. He began translating Japanese classic literature as early as the early 1980s. His years of experience in Japanese literature translation have given him not only in-depth research on Kawabata Yasunari's literature, but also unique insights. He is the best candidate to translate Kawabata's works.

"The Dancing Girl of Izu" is an autobiographical novel written by Kawabata Yasunari based on his trip to Izu when he was nineteen years old (1918). The author lost his parents when he was young, and when he was sixteen, all his relatives left him. His tragic life experience gave him a withdrawn and melancholy character. In order to relieve this depressed mood, the author started a journey to Izu alone when he was nineteen years old. On the way, he met a group of artists who made a living from touring performances. The author was moved by the innocence and kindness of one of the fourteen-year-old dancers, and followed them all the way. Unfortunately, the huge identity difference between the two made this hazy love affair end in vain. Through the delicate description of the scenery, the author allows readers to immerse themselves in the beautiful scenery of Izu and at the same time sigh at the beautiful and hazy emotions between ignorant boys and girls, achieving a harmonious blend of love and scenery. The novel is the author's early masterpiece and most famous work. It was widely praised as soon as it was published and has been adapted to the screen many times. It is a famous article in the history of Japanese literature describing the innocent love between young men and women. This book also includes several famous short stories by Kawabata Yasunari.

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories by the well-known author of "Vanity Fair" Thackeray, which is translated and published for the first time in China. In a unique way and angle, the work provides an in-depth and detailed description and revelation of human nature and the common snobbish behavior in society. "The Little Banquet at the Timmins House" allows us to see how things like treating guests to dinner in society are deeply affected by "snobbery", which is also true today. The plot of the novel is vivid and humorous. "Deadly Boots" tells the story of the snobbish protagonist who, under the influence of pursuing money and society, encounters setbacks and misfortunes because of a pair of boots, which ultimately puts his life in trouble. The novel fully reflects the author's writing characteristics and personality in his representative works such as "Vanity Fair" and is quite enlightening. "The Hogerty Diamond" is a rare novella. The story surrounding a diamond allows readers to see all kinds of characters with different snobbish faces. The characters in the story can be seen even today, which is what makes a classic masterpiece extraordinary. Thackeray is indeed worthy of being a master of describing snobbery, a human weakness. His exposure of this common and typical phenomenon is profound, showing the enduring charm of his work.

The collection of novels includes ten novels with realistic themes created in recent years that reflect the current society, including "You Are Not Just Yourself", "The Invisible Man", "The Fourth Person", "Happiness Plan" and "Snail", which have been published in domestic literary publications. The novels are mostly set in modern cities and small towns, depicting ordinary people. They not only pay attention to their living difficulties, but also try to penetrate into human nature and understand their desires, anxiety, loneliness, pain, and even some dark corners of human nature. Yu Yan's novels always focus on the contradictory and confusing side of human nature. They do not shy away from the humble little consciousness that emerges from time to time in small characters, but also strive to show their side that is attracted by a flicker of light. They not only have a strong emotional impact, but also convey the power to awaken the world.

This book is a collection of award-winning short stories and short stories in the 2024 Harvest Literature List, including ten short stories (in order of ranking: Ban Yu, Zhu Jing, Li Xiuwen, Chi Shang, Deng Yiguang, Dai Bing, Du Qiao, Shuang Xuetao, Niu Jianzhe, Bao Zhuo), ten novellas (in order of ranking: Zhegui, Liu Ting, Zhang Chu, Du Li, Sun Pin, Yang Fang, Yuan Deyin, Ma Jiahui, Wang Xiangfu, Qijingnian). With these twenty key works, we strive to present to the public the original short and medium-length works that are most worthy of reading and worthy of attention of the year, reflecting the achievements and explorations of current literary creation.

Is there a possibility? The world doesn't just start once or twice. As long as you find a switch, it can restart infinitely. In every dimension, I may be a mushroom growing in the air, or I may suddenly appear on the bed of a stranger who is dying, or I may become an African lion... What are all things? Does it exist before me, as small as a waterfall that I cannot grasp, or is it a cage that changes because of me but always closes me in it? When one day I discovered that time and space can reopen temporarily, I found the secret key to this world; when I understood that "infinite possibilities" is just an empty talk, that's when I truly grew up.

Sitting in the room is divided into three chapters: you, me, and him. In three different chapters, characters are described and portrayed from different narrative perspectives, and different lives are created, experienced and perceived in different personal contexts. All descriptions in the novel are derived from public life, seeking life force from the people, reflecting the impact of life from various situations, and bursting out in countless emotions one by one. The novel also attaches great importance to people's spiritual world. Many descriptions focus on the state of mind, the reflection of body skills, and the influence of spiritual energy on the body.

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories describing naval military life. The book selects the most representative works of writers such as Aaron Kwok, Lu Yingmo, Zhou Ming, Gao Mi, etc., Most of which were published in publications such as "People's Liberation Army Literature and Art". The author uses natural, delicate and emotional writing style to tell touching stories about the navy, such as the growth trajectory of the sonar soldiers, the mental journey of the officers and soldiers guarding the island, the deep friendship between comrades, vivid stories on the voyage, etc., Showing the lofty ideals and firm beliefs of the soldiers, and promoting the feelings of the soldiers' family and country.

This book contains Dag Solstad's two representative works "Shyness and Dignity" and "The Night of Professor Anderson". "Shyness and Dignity" (Genanse og verdighet) Elias Jukla is a high school teacher in his fifties who teaches literature courses to his graduating class. On this day, he went to school to teach as usual, explaining Ibsen's "The Wild Duck"; the students were drowsy in class as usual, and were indifferent to his new insights into Ibsen's works that came to him during the lecture. After class, he walked out of the classroom to go home, but he became very angry because of an umbrella that could not be opened. He lost control and smashed the umbrella. At the same time, he realized that he could no longer face the students and colleagues who witnessed his loss of control. He walked out of school and stood at a loss in the drizzle of Oslo, not knowing where he should go. On this seemingly ordinary day but destined to be a turning point in his life, he stood at a crossroads and recalled his youth, his former best friend John Corneliussen and his stunningly beautiful wife Eva, their high-spirited college life, and all the sudden changes that followed. He felt like he was drifting away from this era, and there was nothing he could do about it. "Professor Andersens natt" (Professor Andersens natt) is an existential murder story. The black humor of the Norwegian literary master. Fifty-five-year-old Professor Poul Anderson witnessed a murder in the apartment opposite on Christmas Eve. He told himself that he should call the police, but he couldn't make up his mind to pick up the phone; he went to a friend's Christmas party and wanted to talk to his friend about the incident, but he could never find the right time to do so. At the same time, he could not control his curiosity about the murderer, and eagerly wanted to know his name, what he looked like, and what kind of person he was. Throughout the Christmas and New Year holidays, he paid close attention to the movements in the window opposite, and gradually learned the name, appearance and even the pattern of the murderer's movements, and also passed by him. Professor Anderson thought about it and constructed many possibilities in his mind. One evening a few days later, he met the murderer in a Japanese restaurant near his home. They sat next to each other, had an opportunity to talk, and even walked home together...