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This book contains three Nobel Prize-winning novels by the famous Japanese writer Kawabata Yasunari. "Snow Country": The young Shimamura met two women with very different personalities in the pure white snow country. His heart that deeply felt the futility of life was healed by the pure and pure love. "Ancient Capital": In Kyoto, the ancient capital with deep tradition, a pair of twin sisters were forced to separate and embarked on completely different life paths, but fate brought them to each other again. "Thousand Cranes": The new owner of a tea ceremony family oscillates between several women with different identities. After experiencing love, hate, life and death, gathering and separation, everything finally calms down.

"Les Misérables" is another magnificent masterpiece written by the famous French romantic writer Victor Hugo after "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". It is a novel that represents Hugo's thoughts and artistic style. With outstanding artistic expression, the book shows people a picture of the French Revolution from 1793 to 1832 through the description of the tragic experiences of Jean Valjean and others and a series of touching deeds done by Jean Valjean after he was converted by Bishop Myrière. The brilliant picture of French social and political life during the Paris Popular Uprising in 2006 profoundly exposed and criticized the decadent nature of French society and its criminal phenomena at that time, and expressed compassion and sympathy for the exploitation, fraud and cruel persecution suffered by the poor people under heavy pressure.

"Kawabata Yasunari's Selected Collection" includes seven masterpieces from different periods by Kawabata Yasunari, Japan's first Nobel Prize winner in literature: "Snow Country", "Ancient Capital", "Thousand Cranes", "Dancing Girl of Izu", "Sound of the Mountain", "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Lake". The creation of these seven works spanned a long time, from the 1920s to the 1960s, and more comprehensively demonstrated the changes in Kawabata Yasunari's literary creation in different periods and his unchanging aesthetic pursuit throughout the period. From the pure and beautiful emotional world created in the early famous works, to the meticulous description of the entanglement of fate in the peak works of the middle period, to the contradiction and hesitation between taboo and transgression in the late turning works, the people and human nature in Kawabata Yasunari's works shine with all kinds of brilliance from different aspects.

This book is also called "Quick Time Travel: Banished Immortality" [The quick time travel male protagonist has no CP, fast pace and no logic] Strong and refreshing writing, focusing on tasks. Note: Slow-heat development [Incompetent introduction, poor writing, interested in reading] Yan Qing traveled through time when his own world was destroyed, and entered a very strange world. Then the system began to lead him into different worlds to complete tasks and experience a variety of life. [World 1: The boy who died looking for his sister] [World 2: The ghost king who was ruined] [Punishment: the waste prison guard and the boy codenamed 10019] [World 3: The boy who is making progress every day] [World 4: Together we investigate the truth about the dormitory murder case] [World 5: The operation of Internet trolls] [World 6: Beautiful gods and terrifying world rulers] The world behind is not In order... [World 7:: I cheated on "my" personality] [World 8: A CEO who is a stickman in order to help others] [World 9: A fake AI that has no more emotions than a real AI] [World N: I have an adventure house] - This book is divided into three stages. The protagonist's calamity # - [No plagiarism, no foreign transfer, no fusion] Quick travel literary practice

Zoologist Kate Morrison is the only one in her family who has left the countryside through education. On the smooth road to the future, she tries to bury her bitter past and refuses to mention anything about her hometown of Crow Lake. But a letter from Crow Lake forced her to return north, back to the icy blue sky, and face the origin of her life: her home, her three brothers and sisters, and the choices they made after a death and a series of tragedies. And she didn't understand the truth behind those choices as well as she thought.

Lisa is back! The girl who calmly saved herself after being kidnapped sent the trafficker to jail. But it wasn't over yet. On the day of the trial, Lisa was stopped in the court parking lot by Verada, a girl who said she was also a victim of a human trafficking organization. Verada told Lisa that the kidnappers were just members of several branch organizations, and that the core "central ring" of the organization was still behind the scenes, and planned to turn Lisa into the 20th victim of the "lobster pool" eighteen years later. What is a "lobster pond"? Where is the "central ring" hidden? In order to find the answer, complete the revenge plan, and save all the victimized women, Lisa followed the clues left by Verada and pursued her for 18 years, even her mother died for it. In grief, Lisa turned into a sharp knife and went straight to the throat of the mastermind behind the scenes. This time, no one can escape justice...

Loving yourself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. In 1895, Wilde was taken to court by the father of his homosexual lover Percy, and was sentenced to prison and ruined. Distraught, he wrote a long letter in prison and entrusted his former lover Rose to deliver it to Percy. This letter is the secret emotion and deep reflection deep in his heart when his destiny was at a low point. In 1905, five years after Wilde's death, Ross published this letter with the title "De Profundis", taken from Psalm 130: "O Lord, from the depths of my heart I pray to you! Lord, please hear my voice!"

"The Brothers Karamazov" is a novel written by the Russian writer Dostoevsky, and is also considered to be his most accomplished masterpiece. The novel begins with the murder of old Karamazov, a provincial rural landowner, and his son becomes a suspect and is put on trial. The author weaves a narrative surrounded by three-dimensional characters, developing a story with twists and turns, facing insurmountable philosophical dilemmas at each stage until it reaches the climax of the plot. In this work, Dostoevsky not only demonstrated the uncanny writing skills and talent of a literary master, but also conducted in-depth discussions on philosophy, psychology, religion, etc. The Brothers Karamazov is one of the greatest novels of all time. Among a small number of outstanding works, "The Brothers Karamazov" ranks first!

In 1924, the famous lyricist Zhu Xiaozang compiled "Three Hundred Song Poems", which is as famous as the "Three Hundred Tang Poems" anthology of classical literature. The book contains a total of 88 poets from the Song Dynasty and 300 poems, which basically shows the appearance and development process of Song Ci. The annotations in this book mainly focus on clearing up the words and sentences, explaining allusions and facts, and the commentary is precise. Each poet has a biography to help readers better understand Song Ci.

Hundreds of pages of pictures and text show millions of years of human history from Australopithecus to the Space Age, and explain many key points: how modern Homo sapiens was born, how we experienced the cognitive revolution and the agricultural revolution, how we created currency, classes, countries, legal and economic systems with collective imagination, how new technologies led to feats such as geographical discovery and space exploration, and how they led to various tragedies...

The "Math Girls" series unfolds in the form of a novel, focusing on describing the process of a group of young people exploring the beauty of mathematics. The content is from the shallower to the deeper, and the mathematical explanation part is very exquisite. It is called "an excellent popular science book on mathematics". "Mathematical Girl 6: Poincaré's Conjecture" takes the century-old mathematical problem "Poincaré's Conjecture" as its theme. Starting from the Cosburg Seven Bridges problem, it explains in detail mathematical knowledge such as topology, non-Euclidean geometry, manifolds, differential equations, Gauss's wonderful theorem and Fourier expansion. It restores the exploration process of Poincaré's conjecture and leads readers to pursue "the shape of the universe". The whole book is written in one go and is very suitable for middle school students, high school students and adults who are interested in mathematics to read. Please open this book and join the protagonists on their journey of exploration.

"Faust" is Goethe's most important and well-known masterpiece. It took nearly sixty years from creation to final completion, covering Goethe's entire literary career. It is also an insurmountable classic in the history of German literature and has a worldwide influence. It is one of the four major European masterpieces along with Homer's epic, Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Shakespeare's "Hamlet". "Faust" is based on the German folklore about Dr. Faustus in the 16th century. It tells the story of Faust's contract with the devil Mephistopheles, starting from his study and entering the outside world, in his unremitting pursuit of love, power, beauty and ideals. Although Faust's pursuit constantly encountered tragedies, and he finally died when his work of transforming nature was completed, his spirit reflected Goethe's own exploration of the inner world and the world in his long life. It was also a microcosm of the cultural development during the rise of the European bourgeoisie in the three hundred years from the Renaissance to the early 19th century.

Dazai uses his own experience of a suicide attempt on the Kamakura Koshiko Dosaki Coast as the material to reproduce the various world phenomena of the protagonist Oba Haizou among selfish adults after his failure to die for love in multiple dimensions. The writer uses experimental techniques to observe the pettiness and ugliness of human nature, weaving his own extensive sensibility and subjective hesitation and uneasiness. How can we save ourselves on this giant ship of life? Through naked writing, writers provide the possibility of a new life for people who are tired of complex interpersonal relationships.

"Us" is the first book in the "Dystopian Trilogy" and was once listed as a banned book. The book is written in the form of notes, and through the mouth of a model citizen living in the future world, it simulates the lives and mentality of various people in a "grand unified country" that is highly digitalized and adopts centralized and unified management. In this unified country that has reached the "highest peak of human civilization", all citizens are named by numbers, and the "numbered citizens" are content with their assigned lives. But totalitarianism cannot extinguish the glory of human nature. The pursuit of freedom has never stopped. A disease called "mind" is spreading...

The little boy Philip was born lame, lost his parents at an early age, sensitive and withdrawn, and was raised by his uncle and aunt. During his studies, he was bullied due to his shy nature; young Philip chose to leave his hometown, first to study in Heidelberg, Germany, then to London as an accounting apprentice, then to Paris to study painting, and finally returned to London to study medicine... The genius novelist Somerset Maugham used his unique and vivid writing to vividly express the confusion and frustration in growing up, the desire for the opposite sex, etc. Reality hits us face to face, human nature is subtle and complex, and our moods are secretly ups and downs... We are always asking for the meaning of life, but we will eventually return to ordinary people; the scenery of life that we are diligently searching for may be in truth and freedom.

"Joy and Day" is a work of Proust's youth. It was written between 1892 and 1895 and was first published in 1896. It is the only work published during his lifetime besides the first four volumes of "In Search of Lost Time". The genres of "Joy and Time" cover short stories, poems and essays. The great themes of "In Search of Lost Time", such as the memories of beautiful childhood, the warmth of family, the comfort of friendship, the endless twists and turns of love, the fragrant clothes and shadows of the upper class, and the profound thinking about literature and art, have all sprouted and bloomed in this book.

This book depicts a future society with highly developed technology and a precise and "perfect" life for human beings. In this "brave new world", people in a state of "happiness" are born in industrialized nurseries with their own preset castes, receive various educations that are content with the status quo, love mechanized work and lifestyle, and all uncertain factors have been eliminated. They have stability and unlimited "freedom", but they have lost their personality, art, marriage, and even emotions; desire has replaced love, pleasure has replaced happiness, and settings have replaced thinking. Those who occasionally have doubts about the status quo or have a rebellious mentality will be regarded as unstable factors and exiled to remote areas...

Young Cierlan Walker was born into slavery. He lost his mother and all memories of her, and at the same time he was given a mysterious power. Once, Sheeran accidentally fell into a river while driving a carriage. When he was about to drown, a blue light led him out of danger, and Sheeran survived. The experience of escaping death caused him to reexamine his life, the decaying plantation, and the evils of slavery. Eventually, Sheeran decided to run away from his only home. Escape from hell is not easy. By chance, Sheeran joins the secret war against slavery. In this cruel trial, he traveled between the gloomy prison of escaped slaves, the dangerous hinterland of the South, and the crisis-ridden Northern Free State. Sheeran makes real friends, experiences adventures he never imagined, and finally understands what this war means. More importantly, he began to understand what the mysterious power in himself was. However, what Sheeran wants to do most is to return to his hometown to save his remaining relatives. With the wisdom given by war, with the courage to face the darkness, and with the divine power in him, can Sheeran succeed? "The Water Dancer" is the first novel by Thanasis Coates, one of the most famous contemporary American writers. Coates seamlessly interweaves real history with wonderful imagination, leading readers back to the wild America of the slavery era. The characters he writes seem to have come from the depths of history, telling us about a painful memory that has not yet healed.

We try to receive and reciprocate love, but we always go astray. Seven years later, Ilana decided to write a letter to her ex-husband Gideon. As a result, a long-dusted marriage past gradually surfaced. Ilana had a hurried divorce back then, and many mysteries have yet to be revealed. For example, why does she always refuse to take a paternity test? In the process of writing letters, they discovered that each other's memories were not the same, and the addition of their current husband, Somo, involved their relationship in a new mystery... The whole book is composed of letters, interspersed with private detective reports, brief telegrams, etc. The structure is exquisite, just like a black box waiting to be cracked.

The narrator of the novel, Ishmael, was tired of life on land and boarded the Pequod whaling ship to work as a sailor. Captain Ahab was bitten off half of his leg by a beluga whale on a previous voyage. He is determined to find the beluga and take revenge on this voyage.

This book is the third collection of essays by award-winning American female writer Jenny Rosen. It contains a total of 35 essays - 13 records about psychotherapy, 6 about trivial matters in family life, and 16 embarrassing stories about social death. Jenny wants to simplify life in a very literal way, to face the dilemmas that everyone can go through, and then make sure that you are not alone and laugh the next time you are stupid. Her articles are light-hearted and humorous, with jumping thoughts and wide-ranging ideas. The preface and follow-up are often inconsistent, but readers will always discover the truth behind each story at the end. In this book, there is no flattery to win social recognition, and I don't care about any comments about myself. I just want to express and record my life candidly and purely.

This is the story of two lonely, scrawny, rather old men who meet on a dying planet. One of them is the science fiction novelist Trout, who is unknown and thinks his life is over. The person he meets is car agent Dwayne, who has a successful career but is on the verge of a mental breakdown. After the two met, one became famous and the other went crazy. And all this is due to a theory in a science fiction novel. Its core idea is as follows: everyone on the earth is a robot, and only you have free will.

The author uses cruel and heavy writing to connect the long and sad life of the protagonist Oba Yezo from his childhood scenery, sufferings to the women and "friends" he has interacted with. The author's spirit invested in this work aims to use the cruel fate of the weak to resist meaninglessness, to inspire people to a certain extent on how to keep their souls in the harsh life, and to reach the other side of their destiny together with people who are suffering.

This is an illustration of the life of a woman in the world. It contains Dazai Osamu's stunning female monologue novels, which vividly describe women's thoughts and accurately capture the human emotions of the world. This is another survival pillow book for sensitive souls. Aoki Oizo who is struggling in the quagmire of life, Meles who runs for friendship and faith, and the Aqing couple who bring light to "me"... The author boldly breaks through the traditional literary style and reveals the reflection of the weak striving to make progress from the perspective of a small character.

A "sci-fi semi-autobiography" by a Nobel Prize-winning female writer - What if you, as an adult, took in your adolescent self... "In high-rise residents, birds fly along invisible fixed routes between windows, and the flying birds cast curious and thoughtful glances , road traffic and the world are far below. I am not like this, I am the kind of person who always looks up and imagines what will happen at high places..." A global disaster has come to the world, the city is paralyzed, food is scarce, and citizens have moved to the suburbs, desolating the city. Children who grow wild form gangs in the concrete ruins and do evil. A woman left behind suddenly gained the ability to walk through walls. She took an adolescent girl and a puppy with her and insisted on being the last survivor here... This can also be said to be a fable about female growth and survival.

In the sequel to "The Fifth Child", what will be the ending if there is no one like him? "They moved away. His mother no longer lived here. Ben turned around and left the house, his childhood home, and began to wander the streets, searching for signs like a dog... Ben had no idea what kind of house they lived in now, what the streets, the smell, the bushes, the courtyards looked like. What should he do?" The fifth child, "Ben", grew up. He has a strange appearance and violent tendencies. His parents' home is no longer his home, and he must find his own home. This young man with a chaotic mind has been exploited several times, fell into illegal and criminal traps, and was even almost used as a "guinea pig" for scientific research... He longed to find similar people, so he took risks to do so, but was disappointed again and again. Where will the lonely goose drift away?

The Nobel Prize-winning female writer's profound thoughts on motherhood and parenting – we can only be optimists. "On the afternoon when they bought this house, they stood on the front porch hand in hand. Birds were chirping in the garden, and the cold early spring rain made the thick branches of the still-black trees shine. They opened the front door, their hearts beating with joy, and found themselves in a huge room facing a spacious staircase. The previous owner, like them, knew what a 'home' should be like..." However, the birth of the fifth child, Ben, shattered this middle-class family's dream of happiness. This abnormal child was born with brute force and was extremely aggressive... His father sent him to a so-called sanatorium, where he was imprisoned and treated inhumanely. His mother relented and took him home, causing another turmoil in the family. How should a normal family "deal with" an abnormal child?

Autumn is deep, and cold wind blows into the small town of Solace. In a house painted dark green, three strangers accidentally bump into each other's world and are involved in each other's joys and sorrows. Their collapsing lives seem destined to intersect in Solace, spanning generations and blood ties. The sky is getting late, the first snowflake is about to fall, and the broken heart is waiting in the dark night, waiting to heal and return home.

"Choose? When to choose? Have I chosen? A woman in a white dress, white shoes, and a pink scarf tied around her neck, standing on the grass. Her appearance is the result of the choice. She is exquisitely dressed, in line with the status of her class, and she is staying here as someone's wife. Of course, as a mother of children..." On an ordinary summer day, middle-aged housewife Kate's peaceful life for many years quietly collapsed - her family members were busy planning for the future, and the house was about to be rented out. Kate was shocked to find that she had become a dispensable person. Feeling lost, Kate walked out of the house and began a long summer journey. Three condensed periods of time, three unusual encounters, intertwined with metaphorical dreams, Kate is lost in the breath of freedom, and suddenly wakes up in memories, wandering, and thinking.

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In 1945, at the end of World War II, a group of German-speaking Romanians were conscripted into a Russian labor camp. The novel tells the story of seventeen-year-old Leopard Oberke. Hunger and fear seeped into his breathing, and every breath brought dizziness and pain like swinging on a swing.

The theft of a sum of money broke up their childhood sweethearts. Seventeen years later, the two met again. While their passion was rekindled, the truth about their separation shrouded their hearts again. Love and hate, joy and sorrow, will disappear in an instant and change in the blink of an eye. This book contains five short stories, which reveal the hidden mysteries layer by layer. Mikihiko Renjo's masterpiece is unique among mystery novel writers. The small hidden lines are like unexplained emotions. Only after reading it for the second time can you understand the true meaning of that sentence.

The immortal masterpiece of contemporary science fiction master and "narrative genius" Iain M. Banks! On the ancient earth with six moons, human beings experienced a devastating and abnormal celestial phenomenon. Thousands of flaming rocks fell from the sky, and technology and civilization were destroyed. When everything goes back to the era of ignorance, how will the wheel of history turn? A doctor who is out of place, a seemingly sincere apprentice, a lonely and mysterious woman, a bodyguard suffering from occupational diseases... A group of inconspicuous little people have caused a storm in the complicated and confusing events. Two posthumous notes, whose authenticity is indistinguishable, tell different versions of the story and reveal the Rashomon-like human past. Who are the rebels? Who wrote the notes? You need to sift through the text and solve more than one puzzle!

A scam about the "American Dream". This book provides the latest nightmare material: kidnapping, slavery, torture, corruption, terrorism... The ending is shocking! A mysterious woman "resurrected" from the dead in the morgue and hijacked the hospital with her accomplices, trapping detective Jane Rizzoli who was about to give birth. In order to save his wife, federal agent Dean, and forensic doctor Maura Ayres, in order to rescue their best friend, decided to negotiate and find out the truth. However, the police took action! In the deafening explosion, Jane heard a soft but urgent whisper: "Mila knows." Who is Mira? What does she know? A thrilling nightmare story unfolds... The original novel of the American TV series "Mysterious Detective" series, the two heroines join forces! A topical work by Tess Gleason, the "Queen of Medical Mysteries".

This book is a warm and healing novel full of whimsical ideas. For as long as Julia can remember, her father has been absent from important stages of her life. As she grew up, her longing for her father's love turned into resentment against her father, and the relationship between father and daughter dropped to a freezing point. The two rarely met or talked, and their opinions had almost no overlap. Just three days before the wedding, Julia, who was busy preparing for the wedding, received a call from her father's secretary. As she expected, her father would not come to the wedding. But this time, Julia had to admit that her father's excuse for absence was justifiable. He passed away. Julia buried her father on the day of the wedding. However, the day after the funeral, her father returned in a different way. Julia received a large wooden box, which contained a wax figure exactly like her father. There was a remote control and user manual in her coat pocket. When she pressed the button, her father immediately came back to life. This is the last gift in life prepared for Julia by her seriously ill father, who she always thought did not love her. This gift will take her on a strange journey and unravel all the knots in her heart.

"Eight Square Meters in Tokyo" is a new collection of essays by Japanese-Chinese writer Shinobu Yoshii. It is his personal record of establishing an alternative daily life in Tokyo. Eight square meters is called "four and a half tatami" in Japan, which is a room with only four and a half tatami mats, and the rent is cheap. Because the eight-square-meter room did not have a kitchen, a refrigerator, a bathroom, or a washing machine, she enthusiastically wrote about how to eat and live, as well as the daily life of Japanese common people she had personally experienced. Living in a cramped living space, she extended her life to the streets and public spaces of the city, writing about laundries, sento, cafes, 24-hour comic shops, independent cinemas, small restaurants, etc. In Tokyo. She also wrote stories about the common people she met in Tokyo. These characters are "invisible, real Tokyoites". Their stories illustrate the world of Japan for us, and also reveal themselves.

It mainly tells the story of Yuna, a 15-year-old girl who "sits at home". She draws a shameful and cute doll bear costume in the game, and then inexplicably travels into a different world and becomes a "brave bear". The bear suit gave Yuna the ability to "cheat", and she was dubbed the "Bloody Bear" after chasing monsters all over the world and beating them up. Yuna, who looks like a "cool heroine" but is very "girly" at heart, meets Fina, a young lolita from a poor family, during her journey to another world, and leads Fina on a journey of adventure, breeding, and selling monster materials to get rich... The invincible Bear Girl's "Bear Adventures" and "Bear Daily Stories" begin... Cuteness is justice! Join the Bear family together and watch the relaxed and joyful daily life of the Bear girl as she fights monsters and upgrades in a different world, cooks delicious food, and meets lolita!

Just after experiencing the ecstasy of love, her father suddenly passed away due to illness. The author Schulz felt disoriented and anxious. She avoided work, books, time, happiness, and reality. Like most people, she was obsessed with sadness and could not extricate herself, so she began to seek solace in poetry, which then extended to the exploration of gains and losses in life. In the end, she calmly accepted the reality: life is always counterproductive - sometimes you collapse, sometimes you recover; sometimes you are busy, sometimes boring; sometimes scary, sometimes absurd; sometimes funny, sometimes uplifting. It is impossible to escape this feeling of constant fusion. Schulz is known in the industry as "one of the greatest writers of our time." She once published an article in The New Yorker about an imminent major earthquake in the Pacific Northwest, for which she won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, marking the first time that the Pulitzer Prize has been awarded to magazine media. In this book, Schulz uses her extensive knowledge and curiosity to wander between philosophy and intimacy, transforming a story about love and death into an exploration of chance and fate, sadness and happiness. Her elegant writing touches the most subtle truth deep in the human heart, which makes people suddenly enlightened after reading it. This is a warm, healing and rational philosophy of life. It is not a simple emotional catharsis, but a rational approach to the gains and losses of life with curiosity and insight from the perspective of different disciplines such as history, poetry, literature, psychology, etc. This is the best gift for people who are sad and worried.

As a fresh graduate of Creation College Class 9527, Haokun found a job in a Fortune 500 company (Zeng) during the school recruitment. He thought he could lie down until he was transported to the lower world and realized: "My family, who knows? This job has made my hair grow bald!"

What kind of time-travel life will Gu Xi start? Please look forward to it...

Ernie Pyle began reporting on the North African battlefield as a war correspondent in 1942. He followed the troop transport ship to Africa and experienced the gunfire and smoke of the Tunisian campaign with the Allied soldiers. 1St Infantry Division and 1st Armored Division, privates and privates, jeeps and GMC two-and-a-half-ton trucks and Douglas DC-3 cargo planes, prisoners of war and trophies, dive bombing and machine gun fire, snakes and lizards, doctors and nurses, rations and blankets, behind it all lay graves and graves and graves. Pyle tells "our war" from various angles and in every detail. The Allies, the Germans, the French, and the Arabs, from soldiers to officers, Pyle observed them without any preconceived views and found that they had both illusions and realities about war. For the Allied soldiers, they died, and so those who were left could live on.

We are not swayed by the world, we are full of curiosity, and pursue the love of life; we do not hesitate to praise others, and do not forget to appreciate ourselves and love ourselves. Being elegant and free is a bit bad!

"If 'Lolita' is a 'dazzling butterfly', then 'The Prototype of Laura' is the 'chrysalis of genius.'" Nabokov's final manuscript was the last manuscript that Nabokov asked to be burned; the "Prototype of the Novel" reproduces the generation and evolution of inspiration in the master's mind. Vladimir Nabokov was a Russian-American writer who was recognized as an outstanding novelist and stylist in the twentieth century. "Lolita", which he wrote in 1955, received great controversy and honors. "The Prototype of Laura" is Nabokov's unfinished work and the last manuscript in his later years. The novel tells the story of Philip Wilde, an extremely bloated scholar who married Flora, a slender, beautiful but promiscuous ballet dancer. On the one hand, he had to endure his wife's lies and betrayal, and on the other hand, he was addicted to the pleasure of self-destruction. "Laura's Archetype" provides a refreshing and richly detailed description of death and the afterlife, a subject that interested Nabokov since childhood. The publishing process of "Laura's Prototype" was controversial. Nabokov once asked that it be burned, but his son Dmitry finally decided to publish it. "The Original of Laura" is a key to the labyrinth of Nabokov's writing.

Following "Facts" and "Legacy", another contemporary classic with Ross as the protagonist. A work of conscience that reflects the issues in the Middle East and a large-scale debate on the fate of the Jews. The deliberate dismantling and reorganization, subversion and hybridization of various texts can be called a masterpiece of postmodernism and a classic of metafiction. "Shylock" is Philip Roth's 19th novel and the fourth in the "Roth Series". It is also a masterpiece of contemporary Jewish literature. An American Jewish novelist named Philip Roth suffered a nervous breakdown in 1988. The cause of the collapse may have been due to taking a sleeping pill called Hylosin, which can cause harmful side effects to users. While slowly recovering from his collapse, the novelist heard that an imposter was attending Demjanjuk's trial in his name in Israel and preaching an outrageous doctrine called Diaspora. Demjanjuk is a former autoworker from Cleveland who may or may not be the "Ivan the Terrible" of the Nazi death camps, the diaspora movement that advocates that Jews should abandon Israel and resettle in Europe (the true homeland of the Jews). In order to stop the absurd behavior of the impostor, Philip set out for Israel. In the process of tracking the impostor, he encountered various people and things, which led to critical thinking about his own superiority and justice.

Colm Tóibín, the author of "The Master" and "Brooklyn", is the latest novel to restore a Thomas Mann full of desires and secrets. The British Frio Literary Award-winning work was selected as one of the top ten historical novels of 2021 by The New York Times, and was selected as the annual book by The Washington Post, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek. "The Magician" opens in the small German town of Lübeck at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, where the boy Thomas Mann grew up with a conservative father who was bound by ethics and a charming and elusive mother from Brazil. Young Mann hid his artistic ambitions from his father and his sexual orientation from everyone. He was attracted by the richest and most educated Jewish family in Munich, married the family's daughter Katia, and had six children. While on vacation in Italy, Mann developed a desire for a boy he met on the beach and wrote the story of "Death in Venice." While accompanying Katia to recuperate in Switzerland, he was fascinated by the inescapable mountain atmosphere and wrote "The Magic Mountain". He became the most successful novelist of his time, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and people repeatedly looked forward to his political statements. He fled Germany and traveled to Switzerland, France, and the United States. His wanderings ended in Kirchberg, south of Zurich. This is an epic family saga set across half a century, through World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II and the Cold War. Tóibín crafts a complex yet sympathetic writer who has struggled throughout his life with his inner desires, his family, and the turbulent times they lived through.

If there are five bullies, they all believe that they only bear one-fifth of the responsibility, while the bullied person has to bear five times the pain. I visited parents of children who committed suicide to understand what it was like for children who were bullied. Because the victims are no longer alive, we cannot directly listen to their voices. However, through repeated visits to the parents of the victims and listening to their laments, the world of contemporary schools that pushed their children to suicide, or failed to fulfill their responsibility to save their lives, and the cruel and indifferent children gradually emerged. Even the cruelty of bullying people to death spread to the victim's parents after the incident, turning into a problem of isolation of the victim's family in the region. This is simply beyond our imagination.

"I taught English literature at the university for a full forty semesters, and not only that, I also tried to convey my love for English literature." "Professor Borges: Twenty-Five Literature Lessons" brings together the complete content of the English literature course that Borges taught at the School of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires in 1966. In these twenty-five lessons, Borges takes us on a true journey through English literature, always staying close to his own readings and works. The journey begins in the mists of time, beginning with the arrival of the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons in England, continuing to the work of Samuel Johnson; wandering to Macpherson, the Romantic poets, and the Victorian era; offering a panoramic view of the lives and works of the Pre-Raphaelites; and ending in nineteenth-century Samoa with one of Borges's favorite writers, Robert Louis Stevenson. What ties these lectures together is an authentic enjoyment of literature, the affection with which Borges approached each work, and his desire to share his enthusiasm for each author and period he studied.

An interview with Nabokov, the master of novels, full of witty words, Lolita, butterflies, creative cards, memory, death, inspiration, Russia... Everything about Nabokov. Interviewed by well-known media such as "Paris Review", "Playboy", "Time", "New York Times", BBC Radio, etc., With vicious tongue + charming + wisdom, a true self-narration. "On My Own" is a self-edited collection of essays by Nabokov, the author of "Lolita" and the master of novels. It is based on interviews from well-known media such as "The Paris Review", "Time", "The New York Times", "Playboy", and BBC Radio. 22 Interviews, 11 letters to the editor, and 14 essays outline a clear and firm self-portrait. Different from other works of fiction, "Expressing My Own Opinions" is a true self-narration; most of the classic "venomous tongue" quotations circulating in the world with a unique Na-style style come from this book. Facing various tough questions raised by the media, Nabokov put forward a series of firm opinions on life, literature, education, movies and other topics: how "Lolita" almost burned down; how he was obsessed with butterflies for a lifetime; what is the most ideal way of travel; what is the ultimate standard of translation and creative art... He ignored the mediocre people who could not understand his works and was happy to slaughter those sacred cows in the literary world that he did not agree with. Readers can understand Nabokov through these sparkling words and embark on the charming, dangerous and challenging spiritual island in his mind.

A best-selling novel serialized at the same time as "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" but with a completely different style, it is a romantic comedy that transcends identity barriers under the long spring sun. "The Long Spring" is a brisk best-selling novel by Mishima Yukio. Ikuo, a law student at T University, and Momoko, the daughter of a used bookstore owner, are engaged lovers. The two overcame their differences in family background and finally came together. Now, as long as Yuxiong officially graduates in one year and three months, the two can get married. Although they have been recognized by the people around them and have become a recognized couple, compared with the happiness they felt when they first secretly fell in love, the two gradually felt some shortcomings...

A non-vegetarian and non-vegetarian way of commentating on the Japanese state of affairs, laughing, cursing, and pungently satirizing the weaknesses of Japanese human nature - Mishima Yukio and "Morality" as the Enemy 69 Lectures, a rare masterpiece of Mishima Yukio's editorial essays. "Lectures on Immoral Education" is a collection of essays by the famous Japanese writer, novelist, and playwright Yukio Mishima. It contains 69 articles. These articles were first published in the Japanese magazine "Star Weekly" and were social and cultural columns written by Mishima for "Star Weekly". They were published from July 27, 1958 to November 29, 1959. In 1959 and 1960, they were published in two volumes by Chuo Koron Publishing House of Japan. These 69 articles describe, analyze, and comment on specific phenomena and issues from Japan's daily life, interpersonal interactions, social trends, and Japanese morality, emotions, and thinking inertia. Mishima expresses his opinions on Japanese national character in an ironic way, sings the opposite and speaks harsh words. Mishima's insight, psychological analysis ability, dialectical logic, and wild and bold expressions are fully revealed.