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"The Scholars" was written by Wu Jingzi in the Qing Dynasty. Fifty-six chapters. It depicts people's different expressions of "fame and wealth" with realism, and deeply criticizes and ridicules the corruption of officials at that time, the shortcomings of imperial examinations, the hypocrisy of etiquette, etc.; At the same time, it passionately praises the protection of human nature by a few characters by insisting on themselves. This book represents the peak of ancient Chinese satirical novels. It creates an example of using novels to directly evaluate real life. This book is edited and annotated by Zhang Huijian, and the annotations are precise and helpful for modern readers to read and understand the social overview of the Qing Dynasty.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" (1844-1845) is also translated as "The Count of Monte Cristo". This novel is the most righteous masterpiece among Alexandre Dumas's works. The novel tells a wonderful story of revenge. A young and handsome captain was assassinated by his friends. After experiencing a long and difficult injustice, he learned the essentials and principles of surviving in desperate situations with superhuman perseverance and wisdom. When he finally escaped from the unjust prison and breathed the first breath of free air after going through all kinds of hardships, he got a second rebirth from body to soul. Fate gave him infinite wisdom and huge wealth, which enabled him to finally succeed in revenge...

On the other side of the ocean, in Flushing, New York, celebrity chef Chen Cheng explained the art of gourmet food in detail with guests from his hometown. Chen Cheng has been cooking since he was a child. His uncle was his uncle. Later, he became a master and learned a lot about the art of cooking. His personal experience is also strange. He has always lived with his aunt in Shanghai since he was a child. He has little memory of his parents and sister's home in the Northeast. He studied art as a young man and received almost no school education. After the country opened, she and her sister immigrated one after another. The sister studied and was successful in her studies, while he used his skills to settle down and make a living. Their father, who was a widower, was also taken in to live with them. Life on the other side is certainly peaceful, but there are long shadows behind everyone. Looking back from time to time, I am filled with emotion.

This is a novel about several teachers. While teaching, serving as a class teacher, participating in nanny training, family education, psychological counseling, etc., The author came into contact with a large number of children and parents, encountered a variety of problems related to parenting, education, and psychology. He was also well aware of the joys and sorrows, struggles, hesitations, and efforts of teachers in the higher vocational education system, and this book was inspired by his feelings. The book unfolds the story from the lives, work, and emotions of several teachers. They observe, consider, and reflect on the existing education system of families, schools, and society from their perspectives. They have been confused, had setbacks, and even gone astray, but their dreams are the unchanging obsession in their hearts, and everything will eventually get better and better.

The story of this book takes place in Yongcheng. The characters in the novel move between the four families of Lin, Dai, Sheng and Pu, interpreting the various life styles of characters from different social classes and reflecting the epitome of an era. The text description in this manuscript is smooth, and the story is told in layers.

Shi Qiusheng lost his mother when he was twelve years old. It was also in this year that he chose to drop out of school and guard the little land with his miserable father and disabled brother. Six years later in the spring, 18-year-old Shi Qiusheng resolutely chose to go out to work with his uncle. In ten years, a young boy grew up into a stable young man. He built a house and started a family, but lost his father on the day he found out that his wife was pregnant. Ten years later in the spring, when he encountered a bottleneck in his life, 28-year-old Shi Qiusheng picked up his bags again and chose another journey of struggle. This is a long novel about the fate of little people, reflecting the ups and downs of ordinary life. Although they cannot choose their origins, they can choose how to change their destiny.

This is a dog's story. This is a dog's life. In the first half of its life, it was carefully cared for and treated with tenderness. At the same time, it was given away, adopted, and kidnapped. After five owners, it was smooth sailing but also wandering. It tries to heal every scarred heart that cares for it, and it watches the joys and sorrows of mortal life. Later in his life, he became a stray dog ​​because he was accidentally lost. It struggles to survive in the streets and alleys. It avoids the bad guys who catch the dog, identifies poisonous food, and has no choice but to decisively leave its rabid companions. It came to this human world and passed through joys and sorrows. Then, leave.

At the age of thirty, there was a very difficult winter, and a feeling of nowhere to go: "I felt powerless, confused and depressed. The important thing is that I can't write, and not writing is like not sleeping or eating to me." Therefore, the author decided to leave Milan and move to a mountain hut two thousand meters above sea level, recalling the past and looking forward to starting writing again. As a very good storyteller in Italy, the author tells us a story about fighting pain with bare hands and finding yourself again.

In the early days of the development of the southern island city, a college student named Chatting applied for a job as a reporter for a newspaper. He loved writing poetry and was talented, and later became the son-in-law of his immediate boss. His failed marriage plunged him into an emotional whirlpool, and he fell passionately in love with Li Xiaofei, a singer graduated from the Art Academy. In order to pursue her dream, Li Xiaofei betrayed her love... The protagonist, exhausted both physically and mentally, and confused in life, came to a pleasant manor far away from the city. His friend Zou Jian, a real estate businessman, had a prosperous business life and was tired of the life of intrigue. After donating all his property to the welfare home, he also walked into Yiren Manor. David, a Public Security Bureau official who allowed the criminal "Third Brother" to escape due to negligence in solving the case, was demoted to the police station as deputy director. Eight years later, he visited Yiren Manor, and "Third Brother" surfaced... Strange things happened in the quiet Yiren Manor: The silent and open-minded Huang Zhuang always dug holes with a hoe to talk on full moon nights, and sneaked back to the island city again and again... A letter written by Huang Zhuang to Chat revealed a shocking secret. Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and several city dwellers are living a pastoral life of inner peace in Yiren Manor.

A historical fable woven with magnificent, gorgeous and bloody words. On the eve of the Pacific War, the "Committee for the Relief of Refugees from the Motherland" was established in Zhuba Village, a Chinese settlement in Sarawak, a British colony. The whole village, young and old, enthusiastically held fund-raising activities for China's anti-Japanese war. The men and women in the village had mutual affection and had a premonition of the coming disaster. In December 1941, the Japanese army launched a full-scale invasion, and everyone associated with the "Committee for the Relief of Refugees from the Motherland", including women and children, were brutally liquidated. During the three years and eight months of occupation, the distinction between humans and animals was blurred, life disappeared easily in various horrific and cruel ways, and lust and bestiality were nakedly displayed in the Nanyang rainforest.

Between the two world wars, in the remote and desolate town of Red Branch, Tennessee, Marion Hilde, who was transporting bootlegging wine for profit, accidentally killed a man who hitched a ride with him and tried to rob him one night, and threw him into a pit in a roadside orchard. The orchard's old caretaker, Arthur Ownby, discovered the body and periodically cut a clump of branches over it over several years. A few years later, on another trip to transport wine, Marion's car broke down and overturned, and he was rescued by a little boy, John Wesley Ratner. Marion was John Wesley's father-killing enemy, but neither of them knew it. For John Wesley, who lost his father when he was young, Marion took on the role of his father when he was growing up and lived happily without knowing their relationship. As time goes by, this sense of happiness is inevitably eroded by death, decay, and modern civilization.

Oreo was wandering in the city's public green space and met Danya, a girl who kindly fed stray animals, and a strange man, Guangming. Oreo is adopted by Guangming and works with Guangming. What kind of sparks will arise between them? In the process of tracking an animal cruelty incident, Guangming, Danya and Oreo fought with the wealthy boss Jin to protect stray cats, and inadvertently uncovered the ugly veil of an illegal game trafficking business...

Oreo wandered to a shanty town on the outskirts of the city and almost died in a blizzard. An old scavenger saved him. Oreo recognized the old man as his master and followed him to pick up scraps every day, surviving the cruel winter. When spring comes, Oreo is accidentally sent to a "loving home" by the stray dog ​​shelter team, where he meets a young and beautiful new owner. From then on, he leads a "decent" life of eating high-end dog food and living in a dog villa... Will Oreo accept all these changes happily?

Oreo was wandering on the outskirts of the city and met a black and white spotted dog named Spot. Banzi was tragically involved in a car accident. Fortunately, he was rescued by a girl, Yanzi, and received treatment at a special animal shelter. Oreo also stumbled into this compound by mistake, and got acquainted with the arrogant one-armed macaque king, the spitting alpaca Snow, the parrot Spinach whose voice was as loud as a mosquito's chirp, and the visually impaired kitten Rice Krispies. In order to help Yanzi let these disabled animals rehearse a perfect circus, Oreo tried his best... In the end, can the performance be held smoothly?

A masterpiece of satirical literature, a national treasure of Czech literature, a joke about the fate of individuals and the relationship between countries. The famous Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek created this satirical masterpiece "The Adventures of Good Soldier Švejk" against the background of the First World War. Through the various encounters of an ordinary soldier, Szeke, in the First World War and the activities of various characters around him, the novel uses a wonderful technique of joking but not cruelty, blending solemnity with humor, and containing anger and laughter, exposing the cruel and decadent Austro-Hungarian Empire and all its ugliness to the broad daylight. This publication selects the abridged version translated by Mr. Xiao Qian from the English translation. Although it is an abridged version, this translation has been highly praised by readers and is more suitable for Chinese readers in terms of style and content.

"Jacques the Fatalist and His Master" is the fourth volume of the "Collected Works of Diderot". The story begins with an aimless journey between Jacques and his master. Regarding the master and servant, we neither know their identities nor their whereabouts. During the journey, they talked about their own experiences and continued to reflect and debate on the popular social issues at that time, from novel art, religion, class to male-female relations, moral ethics and other issues. Milan Kundera praised it highly, calling it "the highest achievement of the novel art in the eighteenth century."

"The Travels of Lao Can" is one of the four most condemned novels of the late Qing Dynasty and has been recognized as a world literary masterpiece by UNESCO. It has been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Japanese and other languages, with more than 186 printed versions. It has been widely circulated and has far-reaching influence. The novel uses the travels of the quack doctor Lao Can as a clue to connect all the social beings in the late Qing Dynasty, and unfolds a comprehensive description of the social politics, economy, and culture at that time. Lao Can is a positive character who embodies the author's thoughts in the work. Although he does not enter an official career, he is concerned about the fate of the country and the nation, sympathizes with the suffering of the people, has a clear sense of right and wrong, and is brave and courageous. He does his best to relieve some people's suffering.

One of the greatest and most controversial works of Diderot, the founder of contemporary European novels, is a masterpiece of Diderot's fantasy art and the forerunner of romantic literary works. "The Nun" is the third volume of "The Collection of Diderot's Works". In the form of an epistolary novel, it tells the story of a girl Susan who was forced to become a nun due to family prejudice and lived in several monasteries. It shows the unfair situation she suffered. This is not a simple anti-church and anti-clerical novel. It opposes It is moral prejudice, inhumanity, and the outdated and solidified social order... The multi-layered connotations make this novel a complex and readable work. It is written in a touching tone and is known as "the most intense and courageous book". It is also a representative work in Diderot's creative career.

The story revolves around a special traditional custom in Albania's past. According to the code of law that governs the northern plateau region of Albania, if a person is killed, his family must avenge him with blood for blood. The protagonist Gioago's brother was killed by his enemy. He avenged his brother and successfully killed his enemy on March 17. From then on his life left him and he could not escape his fate. Before being chased by the family of the deceased, he got a thirty-day truce agreement, so his April was broken into two parts. Before April 17, it was safe and "white", and then it was desperate and "black." Intertwined with Jorge's fate is a newlywed couple. They come from Tirana, the capital of Albania, and are full of yearning for plateau culture. The bride Diana was uncontrollably attracted to Giorgi, whom she had only met once, and even left her newlywed husband to find this mysterious young man. At the same time, Giorgi also wanted to meet Diana again before April turned black. The novel was adapted into the movie "Behind the Sun", which was released in 2012.

With the magical atmosphere of García Márquez, the contrast of light and weight like Milan Kundera, and the keen insight of Kafka, this is the representative work of Kadare, one of the writers with high aspirations for winning the Nobel Prize. The author won the first Booker International Prize for Literature, the Prince of Asturias Prize, and the Jerusalem Prize for Literature. Who is to say that what we see with our own eyes has not been distorted? Who is to say that everything depicted here is not the essence of things? The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire founded the Dream Palace, which was in charge of sleep and dreams. It specifically collected people's dreams, classified, screened, analyzed, reviewed and processed them. Once any signs of a threat to the monarchy were found, all measures were immediately taken to suppress them. The story begins when a young man from a prominent family, Mark Alem, enters the Dream Palace. His family has produced five Albanian prime ministers, as well as countless generals and important ministers. Because of the importance of the Dream Palace, he was assigned to work in it by his high-ranking uncle, and directly entered the important screening department, and was soon transferred to the analysis department. He deals with all kinds of dreams every day. One day, he encountered the same dream twice. As a result, his handling of the dream changed the fate of him and his family drastically.

This is a novel in which the author mainly narrates his childhood life. It is also a self-analysis and self-criticism of the author. Through these seemingly ordinary and trivial stories, we can see the germ of the author's existential thought and the starting point of his theory. In short, this is not only an interesting literary work that can provide people with beautiful enjoyment, but also an indispensable first-hand information for understanding Sartre.

This is a novel in which the author mainly narrates his childhood life. It is also a self-analysis and self-criticism of the author. Through these seemingly ordinary and trivial stories, we can see the germ of the author's existential thought and the starting point of his theory. In short, this is not only an interesting literary work that can provide people with beautiful enjoyment, but also an indispensable first-hand information for understanding Sartre.

"Rodin" and "The Noble House" are the first two of Turgenev's six novels, which reflect the language characteristics and ideological tendencies of Turgenev's early novel creation. Since Pushkin created the gallery of "superfluous people" in Russian literature, "Rodin" is Turgenev's contribution to this group of characters. The protagonist of the novel, Luo Ting, was a "superfluous man" in the 1850s. He was born in a dilapidated aristocratic family, received a university education, traveled abroad, loved freedom, was eloquent, and had full ideals. However, he was a "giant in words and a dwarf in action." He failed repeatedly in real life and achieved nothing, and finally died of wound infection in poverty. The greatest success of "The Noble House" lies in its structure, and it has been rated as "one of the writer's most rigorously structured and perfect works". The novel narrates the love and marriage story of an aristocratic couple, and is a metaphor for the rise and fall of the Russian aristocracy. The author wants to show that the golden age of the aristocracy has passed, and now they have to face the gloomy reality.

Although the new generation of migrant workers still bears the "brand" of migrant workers, they are no longer migrant workers in the traditional sense. They are eager to enter and integrate into urban society. They are everywhere in modern urban civilization and life, but the city is obviously not fully ready to accept them.

This book is adapted from a true story. It tells the vivid story of the protagonist Fakasu, who after losing his mother, went through many twists and turns in life, found his way back, gradually grew up, and started a new life.

The novel depicts the many life difficulties that the protagonist Zhao Shenghui encounters in his entrepreneurial journey in China's current society with rapid economic development, facing cruel business competition and the jungle law of the jungle. It exposes his transformation and confusion again and again to the sun, and shows how he gradually grew from a simple and naive "noob" to a mentally determined man.

My name is Holden, I am 16 years old, almost 1.9 Meters tall, and have gray hair on half of my head. But my dad says I look like a kid, okay, but I still feel like I'm much more mature than my actual age. If you are willing to listen, let me tell you about some ridiculous things I did a while ago. First of all, I failed the exam. For example, when writing essays, I like to express what's in my heart, but they care more about whether you use punctuation correctly. If you express yourself freely, you deserve a low score. I didn't study hard in some subjects, but I still respected the teacher very much, but he didn't save any face for me, which made me sad. Not long ago, a boy jumped out of the dormitory window, but nothing happened to his bullies... I bought a red hunting hat. I might be considered a weirdo, but I feel pretty cool wearing it. My narcissistic roommate asked me to help him with his homework because he had to go on a date. My date was a girl I had a crush on, but he couldn't even remember her name correctly. I had a fight with that kid. To be precise, I scolded him and got beaten. I was not in a good mood and wanted to give myself two days off and go to the city to relax. Yet everyone I meet makes me sadder. I asked the taxi driver where the wild ducks went to spend the winter after the lake in the park froze. I asked my well-informed classmates, what is the relationship between love and sex? I asked my trusted teacher if there was only one standard answer in life? No one answered me. I feel so uncomfortable that I want to escape from here and find a peaceful place to spend the rest of my life, but I am also afraid that my mother will collapse. I want to be a catcher in the rye and catch those children running towards the cliff. But will anyone catch me... There are too many books teaching people how to grow, but this book shows what growth really looks like. Let everyone who is young or has been young feel sad.

What if taxes were paid in the form of blood draws and enforced by blood collection teams, what if the penalty for tax evasion was jail time and blood donation was illegal? In this imaginary and absurd Rome, Alan Costa, a member of the blood collection team, fell in love with Anissa Marisano, an illegal blood donor from the underground organization. Allen's side is full of fraud and betrayal, and he begins to doubt his colleagues and even his boss. With Anissa in jail for tax evasion, Alan is faced with choices that could cost him everything. The background of the story is set in "Rome", which makes the story more ironic.

Like a migratory bird wandering away from the flock, looking alone. A group of the worst and most failed firefighters in history began their search for self-worth in the vast reed swamps. This novel is adapted from the story of Liaoning Migratory Bird Fire Station.

"Brother" describes a straightforward, reckless but simple, kind-hearted young man with a sense of justice. After his parents died and he graduated from school, he left Tokyo to teach in a school elsewhere. As soon as he entered society, he fell into people's intrigues and plots against each other. He fought hard but fell into traps one after another. He felt strange and lonely. In the end, he beat his enemies severely, got angry, and returned to Tokyo to make a living. The novel exposes and criticizes the evil forces in society and profit-seeking interpersonal relationships. The language is humorous, bright and simple, and contains the beneficial elements of "rakugo" (a folk art similar to cross talk) in popular literature. It is funny and interesting. More importantly, it expresses the typical character of the cheerful "Edo child" and adds a permanent and lovely image to the history of Japanese literature. Through the various dramatic conflicts between his brother and the common people around him after he entered society, the author pungently and skillfully satirized the ugly phenomena in society, lashed out at despicability, power and hypocrisy, and praised justice, straightforwardness and innocence.

This book is a red classic. It mainly tells the story of Huang Menghua, a middle school teacher in the occupied area. Due to the constant calls of her husband Lei Mengjian who had arrived in the "rear area" and her unwillingness to be a slave of the country, she made up her mind to leave the occupied area with her children and go to a free place to find light. Unexpectedly, when she arrived at her husband's station after going through all the hardships, her husband left early and left her only a letter. She finally understood her husband's painstaking efforts and tried to bid farewell to her old self and start a new journey to catch up with the progress of the times, and her soul grew as a result.

"Wind and Rain in Tongjiang" describes the thrilling struggle between the overseas Chinese in the southeastern coastal areas and their enemies under the leadership of the Communist Party of China after the Central Red Army went north for the Long March in 1935. The novel is grand in scale, the plot is twists and turns, and it creates dozens of flesh-and-blood characters with distinctive personalities. It can be called "an epic literary work." The novel describes a broad picture of life in southern cities and rural areas. On this basis, two flowers bloom, and urban struggles and rural struggles go hand in hand. The central army, local reactionary armed forces, and rural bandits use each other to kill each other, and the people laugh at the sword and obey the party wholeheartedly. There is justice, truth, loyalty, kindness, and suffering and blood. It truly presents the evocative struggle of the people of southern Fujian at that time.

In the storm of the Great Revolution, Zhang Jinde, a Communist Party member and miner, and Li Jie, a revolutionary intellectual from a landlord's family, returned to their hometowns one after another. They brought new ideas to the farmers, sowed the fire of resistance in the countryside, and set off a revolutionary storm in the sleeping fields. The work is based on the sharp and fierce class struggle in rural society before and after the Great Revolution. For the first time in the form of a novel, the work passionately expresses the awakening of farmers, reproduces the process of the peasant revolutionary movement, and foreshadows the prospects for victory after the revolutionary storm. The writer stands at the highest point of the times and uses art to grasp the world, reflecting the problem of the way out for the Chinese revolution: the Chinese revolution is actually a peasant revolution. The peasant revolution must take the Jinggangshan road!

This book is a novel written by the modern writer Wang Tongzhao and is a landmark work on the new development of realism. The novel is set in the northern countryside under the rule of warlords in the late 1920s. It tells the story of Xi Dayou, a homesteader who leads his family to leave their hometown and go to the city to make a living, struggling but unable to change the current situation. The work revolves around the different destinies of Xi Dayou and his relatives and friends, depicting vivid characters one after another, vividly expressing the inner complexity and struggle of the characters, showing a tragic and melancholy and angry rural economic and social picture, creating an atmosphere of imminent rain, implying that in the precarious situation, farmers with surging thoughts will surely rise up to fight, and revolution will break out in the countryside.

This book takes the activities of the Xiamen Associated Press as a clue and ends with the Xiamen Prison Heist. It truly shows the Chinese revolutionary situation around the 1930s, as well as the ideological and political outlook of the vast number of intellectuals, and successfully portrays the images of different types of intellectuals. In the 1930s, in Xiamen, a small island city, a group of passionate young people formed the "Xiamen United News Agency" under the leadership of the party to carry out anti-feudal and anti-colonial propaganda struggles. Due to the betrayal of the traitors, He Jianping, Wu Jian and others were arrested and imprisoned successively. In order to rescue their comrades in prison, the party members led by Li Yue and Ding Xiuwei, with the help of the hero Wu Qi and the Kuomintang prison elder Yao and others who had penetrated into the enemy's interior, cooperated internally and externally, staged a riot, breached the enemy's prison in one fell swoop, and successfully joined the large forces. The novel creates the images of a group of revolutionary intellectuals with communist ideals and patriotism, including Li Yue, He Jianping, Ding Xiuwei, and Wu Qi.

This book describes a magnificent and touching story that happened within ten days in Pingyang, an economically developed city. It interweaves the thoughts and struggles, dedication and sacrifice, emotions and destiny of the characters at three levels: high-level leaders represented by Jiang Chaolin and Gao Changhe, middle-level cadres such as Tian Liye and He Zhuoxiao, and ordinary people at the bottom of society such as Tian Liting and Li Babu, into a symphony of reform to welcome the new century. Whether he is creating new historical novels in his early days or creating new political novels in his transition, Zhou Meisen's works contain strong political sentiments, realistic sentiments, and sentiments for the people. He has an innate pride that can be seen in the strong winds and flying clouds, and he also has deep-seated sympathy and care for the livelihood of the people at the bottom of his body. He reflected the reality of this society with his conscience and responsibility and his literary writing, showing a high degree of political acumen.

"The Endless Yangtze Rolls" describes the underground trade union activities under the rule of the old warlords, the vigorous development of the workers' movement after the Northern Expeditionary Army arrived in Wuhan, and the changes and growth experiences of workers in their thoughts and lives. It also intersperses the rural struggle to regain the British concession in Hankou and overthrow the local tyrants and evil gentry, as well as the love stories of several pairs of young revolutionaries. It reflects the characteristics of the times when the working class opposed the invasion of foreign powers and the feudal system of marriage, and fought for free love. It also highlights the noble sentiments of the protagonist who is not afraid of powerful enemies and fights back oppression. A group of young people defended the results of the struggle under heavy siege and blockade by the enemy, and praised the heroic and unyielding revolutionary spirit of the Communists and the workers and peasants.

This book tells the story of the landlords in Dadong Township, Guangdong, who brutally exploited and oppressed their farm laborers. The story reveals that during the land reform period, the landlords tried their best to engage in conspiracy activities in an attempt to sabotage the land reform. However, under the correct leadership of the Communist Party of China and the close unity of the peasant masses, everyone finally overthrew the landlords, and the peasants stood up, obtained the land, and became the owners of the land. This novel, based on the author's own personal experience, describes the rural land reform movement and shows the growth of farmers. It has touching plots and twists and turns of the story, which is very rich in local color. It is deeply memorable and endless after reading.

This book is a modern novel, which mainly describes the harsh struggle carried out by communist revolutionaries in the enemy's prison. In the winter of 1928, Communist Party member Jin Zhen was arrested and imprisoned due to betrayal by a traitor when he led a military team to attack the landlord armed forces. They successively launched various thrilling struggles against extremely brutal enemies in prisons in Suzhou, Zhenjiang and other places. Under the severe torture and other temptations of the enemy, they were not afraid of rape, remained unyielding, and finally died heroically. The work eulogizes the noble qualities of revolutionary soldiers who fought bravely and regarded death as safe for the benefit of the party and the people. It also describes the pure friendship and love between them. It is truly touching to read.

This book is based on the journey that people of the same age in the Republic have gone through with the motherland. It takes the life paths of six male and female educated youths who once went to the mountains and countryside in Beidahuang as the main line. It shows the ups and downs that Chinese society has experienced in recent decades and outlines the annual cycle of the Republic. The protagonists in the book experienced natural disasters in the 1960s and tasted the hardships of life prematurely; the vigorous events of the times made them excited and disappointed; the magical Northern Wilderness once made their blood boil, but also made them confused and helpless. They have traditional Chinese family ties, a friendship that is higher than family ties and helps their friends at their own expense, and a love that is full of tragedy and misfortune. When the tide of reform swept across the earth, the best time of their lives had passed. However, with their perseverance and perseverance, they stubbornly fought against fate and used their wisdom and blood to compose the magnificent life of a generation. The book was made into a TV series, won the Five One Project Award and the Golden Eagle Award, and received unprecedented response.

When Anna Kerrigan was almost 12 years old, her father took her to Manhattan Beach to meet a man named Dexter Styles, a figure who was crucial to her father. But at that time, she had no idea how much impact the man in a black coat would have on her and her family... A few years later, her father mysteriously disappeared and the United States fell into war. Young men were sent to war, and women began to enter male occupations. After Anna left college, she worked measuring parts at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but she didn't want to stop there. Later, by chance, Anna, who loves the sea, volunteered to sign up to become a diver and repair military ships. The job was extremely dangerous and had never been done by a woman before. One day, after finishing her work during the day, she met Dexter Styles, whom she had not seen for a long time, in a nightclub. She was determined to learn about her father's whereabouts through him and solve the mystery of her father's disappearance that had tortured her for many years... The novel panoramically shows the American society and the real life of ordinary people in the 1930s and 1940s through the joys and sorrows of the two families, Kerrigan and Styles. This novel full of film noir temperament, with delicate and poetic narration, takes us into a complex and crazy wartime world composed of gang bosses, bankers, union leaders, blue-collar workers, divers, single mothers who became pregnant out of wedlock, and war madmen.

This book is based on historical fragments from the Revolutionary Army's Northern Expedition to the founding of New China and the end of land reform. It takes the Shiyang River as the scene and the rough experiences of Jiang Baixian and Hua Xianzi as the main line. It records the rise and fall of a wealthy family in Minqin and reflects the customs, customs and living conditions from the mid-1920s to the early 1950s.

The author was one of the first batch of educated youths to join Tianyang County, Baise, Guangxi. He spent his precious youth years eating, living and working with farmers there. From then on, he fell deeply in love with that land and regarded it as his "second hometown". Many years later, the author recorded the stories of himself and his friends around him in words, and wrote this book "Love Song of His Second Hometown". This book is divided into eight parts, recreating the true stories of the harmonious coexistence of educated youth and the masses, joint construction of the local area, and how each of them grew up through training, and depicts a picture of the working life of a passionate generation.

In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a Luo Lan Fan restaurant on Sima Road (now Fuzhou Road) in Shanghai. It was not big in appearance, but quite famous. Not only did it specialize in Shanghai-style Western food, but all the staff were girls, which was unique in Shanghai. A young lady who loves to make money and leaves home to open a shop, a chef who is addicted to detective novels, a chef's assistant who is skilled in martial arts, a passionate and impulsive waiter and a shy and restrained waiter. In Shanghai, where prosperity and chaos coexist, and trendy and backward intertwined, they interpret interlocking stories with ups and downs. She just lost the important seasoning for frying the steak, and encountered a provocative gamble by an unscrupulous reporter. The boss Lin Xun calmly accepted it, how did she deal with it... Why did the taciturn kitchen assistant Ye Qin secretly decide to single-handedly protect the safety of a group of old men who were going to fight against the disparate foreigners... The famous painter died suddenly, but he frequently visited Luolan Fan Restaurant during his lifetime and fell in love with the milky green bean puree. The calm waiter Shen Jun realizes that there is another truth behind...

This book is a full-length novel. The novel is based on the theme of college students teaching in a small town. Through the characters' fierce debates about self-worth and social value, it shows the complex and multi-faceted human nature and the vastly different personal interests. The story has ups and downs and is thought-provoking.

Agan smuggled himself abroad to make a living at the instigation of his good brother Lao Bangzi. As soon as he set foot on a foreign land, he was involved in a fight between local gangs. As a result, he started a new life beyond his imagination. He also fell in love with a Chinese girl Zheng Yuner and tasted the sweetness of love. But the gears of fate were slowly turning. As Lao Bangzi was forced to leave, Agan couldn't help but become a key member of the gang. He was originally a passionate and patriotic young man who was kind-hearted, attached great importance to love and justice, was simple, upright and even a little naive. However, he was influenced by the gloomy environment and became less and less like himself. Power, status, and wealth came one after another, but he also paid a heavy price. Should I give up all this or continue to sink? A Gan resolutely made the final choice...

The novel "In the Name of the Father" is divided into four "polyphonic" chapters, starting from different perspectives of two generations, and narrates a series of stories about "strangers", "escape" and "hometown". The three main characters, Axi, Qiulan, and Axia, are all young people living in a foreign land. All three of them have suffered severe mental trauma due to the lack of their "father". The novel uses Ah happy as the main character and tells his experience of escaping from his hometown in Chaoshan and traveling to Guangzhou, Guangxi and other places. His mother, who could not bear the violence, left the young Ah happy in her hometown in Chaoshan. After he became an adult, Ah Xi ran away from home to follow his mother. In Guangzhou and Guangxi, he met two women, Qiu Lan and A Xia respectively. In his life with two women with very different personalities, Ah happy experienced his own sublimation, from "escape" to "face". At the end of the novel, starting from the perspective of Axi's father, the whole story is fully explained and presented to the readers more truly and vividly, bringing a complete conclusion to the entire work.

If a person suffers from bipolar disorder, his or her life is no longer complete. The fragmented past is unbearable to look back on, and facing the future is even more like facing an abyss. Each attack brought his life to the bottom. The "self" he thought he knew has become blurred and shaky. He cannot confirm his own existence. He does not know who he is. Thoughts that pass by in a normal state are put into action without thinking in the "short circuit" state when mania strikes. There may be an eternal abyss hidden in everyone's heart. Normal people will only occasionally stand on the edge of the cliff and cast a glance, but bipolar disorder is like an endless trek into the abyss... Thomas Mailer has been suffering from bipolar disorder for many years. This autobiographical novel tells the story of a dramatic split personality and a long and difficult recovery process, giving readers a glimpse into the true heart of a patient. This is a gripping chronicle of a broken life, a work that is highly autobiographical and literary.

"Lucky Jim" tells the story of young Jim who comes to a local university in England to serve as a temporary lecturer in medieval history. He had been employed for less than a year, but his future was firmly in the hands of the department chairman, Mr. Welch. At the critical moment when he was deciding whether to stay or not, he happened to compete with the director's son for his girlfriend. Facing the hypocritical academic circle and the arty social life after the war, Jim continued to have troubles... "Lucky Jim" was selected into "Time" magazine's "100 Best English Novels from 1923 to 2005". It is a rare comedy work in the history of British novels after World War II. The work's dissatisfaction with the current situation of British society, attack on the privileges of the middle class, ridicule of the "fake" high literature represented by those successful old writers, and criticism of the so-called welfare state policies, etc., Are all in line with the wishes of the general public. This is probably one of the reasons why this novel resonated with the lower class at the time and became so popular. "Lucky Jim" became a household name in British society in the 1950s.

Why did Urania return to the land she vowed never to set foot again after thirty-five years of absence from her motherland? Why has she been filled with fear since she was fourteen? Why did she never visit and greet her father? Facing her aunt's questioning, Urania slowly recounted the painful memories of more than thirty years ago, the intricate political conspiracies, and the secret that ruined her life... Llosa used realistic writing and a three-line narrative structure to describe Urania's recollections of the past, how Trujillo, the dictator of the Dominican Republic, started his day and a breathtaking assassination, revealing the mysterious relationship between dictatorship, power, corruption and sex. Among the "100 Best Spanish Novels from 1982 to 2007" selected in 2007, "Festival of the Rams" ranked second, second only to García Márquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera".