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The protagonists Henrik and Selim grew up together. Although they have the same interests and aspirations, their personalities are very different. Compared to Henrik's melancholy and sensitivity, Selim is more outgoing and impulsive. The death of the old servant Mikola made Henrik become Hania's guardian and fell deeply in love with her, but Hania eloped with Hania on a rainy night. After the elopement failed, Hania contracted bean disease and her face was in danger of being disfigured. Henrik challenged Selim to a duel and was seriously wounded and nearly killed. After all the turmoil passed, Selim still expressed his love to Hania, but the disfigured Hania was already disheartened and regretted the original elopement. It was the recklessness of youth that caused all this. Eventually, she became a nun and her heart was as calm as water.

On the streets of Paris the heroine stops a truck and asks for a ride. The heroine got into the truck and chatted with the driver for an hour and twenty minutes, talking about everything. The prototype of the heroine in "Truck" writer Marguerite Duras is the writer herself, and hitchhiking was also her personal experience.

Certain historical figures were buried twice, first in a tomb and then in the shadow of their fame. This is the case for Jacques Cole, the protagonist of "The Dream Maker". He was the first French merchant to set his sights on the East and the supervisor of King Charles VII. He lived in the early fifteenth century and witnessed this era of continuity and the transformation of the Middle Ages giving way to the Renaissance. This separation of the past and the future made people ignore his own reality, the instigator of the revolution. This book is written in the voice of Cole, who lives in exile on the island of Chios, recalling his magnificent life: from the golden leopard that represented the Eastern dream in his childhood to the calm and precocious young man during the siege, from the ambitious businessman and powerful official who traveled around the world to his precarious life in exile, and his only love. It was not until Agnès Sorel appeared on his path that he understood how happy and painful the human heart can be...

In outer space 5,000 kilometers above the earth's surface, alien enemies from 12 planets have gathered. They are watching eagerly, waiting for opportunities, and are preparing to launch an interstellar war, and their opponent is human beings. Humanity knows very little about these alien enemies. What do aliens actually look like? How do we identify aliens? How to find aliens lurking around you? If aliens invaded Earth, how would they attack? To what extent have their technologies advanced? Do humans have any chance of winning against aliens? How do we kill them and protect ourselves? John Scalzi, current president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, gave the answer. This book is his masterpiece, a super best-selling novel that is popular all over the world. It has the coolest and most comprehensive description of aliens.

"The Plague" and "The Stranger" (1942) selected in this book are Camus's most important masterpieces, and both are listed as masterpieces of modern world literature. The background of "The Plague" is a commercial city in the Mediterranean region of North Africa. In the novel, Camus used meticulous writing to describe the loneliness, fear, anxiety, pain, struggle and struggle of people in this isolated city where the plague broke out. "The Outsider" describes the process of a young man named Mossot from the time he buried his mother to the time he was sentenced to death after being imprisoned for causing death in self-defense. The novel describes Mossot's inner world in a calm and monotonous language.

An ancient Indian tribe collected endless treasures. In order to protect these treasures, they built elaborate fortifications and left a treasure map for future generations. Unfortunately, the treasure map fell into the hands of a group of homeless gangs who did all kinds of evil. These vicious gangs of tramps robbed, killed, and set fires everywhere. Around the treasure, tramps, lumberjacks, hunters, and Indians fought a desperate struggle. Heroes from all walks of life gathered on the shores of Silver Lake again. Whose hands did the treasure finally fall into?

"Farewell to Innocence" is a miracle in the history of publishing. It sold more than 6 million copies in just 6 months after its release, setting a record in the Guinness Book of World Records. It sold 30 million copies in total and was named one of the "three best-selling novels in the world in the 20th century". It was selected as one of the "100 Must-Read Books in Life" by Amazon in the United States. Anne is an independent girl, kind and firm, and a believer in love. The man with British temperament who broke into her life in the hot summer contained the mystery of true love that she had been trapped in all her life. Jennifer has all the beautiful looks, but cannot escape the shadow of her family. From Europe, where she was young and ignorant, to the United States, where she lived a stable life, and then to France, where she became successful and famous, she longed for a perfect family and marriage, but she was homeless all her life. Neeli is a girl with a flaming face. She has a bright talent and a strong vitality that is not commensurate with her petite body. The fireworks of fame and fortune bloomed again and again, but she fell into an endless cycle of loneliness and emptiness.

At the end of the 19th century, British engineer Patterson came to British East Africa and participated in the construction of the railway from Mombasa in the east to Kisumu in the west. This 580-mile-long railway passes through swamps and deserts and spans several wide rivers. It was built entirely by manpower and involved a total of 35,000 people. Just as the project was in full swing in Tsavo, a pair of man-eating lions appeared, severely hampering the progress of the project. Their skills are so cunning that they can escape even if they are trapped in a huge trap surrounded by sleepers and iron bars and faced with a group of well-equipped soldiers only a few feet away. This incredible behavior has earned them the nickname "Night Demons". This human tragedy caused by two man-eating lions lasted for several months, claiming the lives of about a hundred people, and finally ended with Patterson's wit and perseverance.

This book is "The Bride" in Undset's novel "Christine's Life" trilogy - "The Bride", "The Mistress" and "The Cross". The novel takes the life experience of a Norwegian medieval woman named Christine Lavranstad as the main line. By describing her various changes in family, love, marriage, children, etc., It expresses the author's sympathy for the aristocratic women at that time who were devastated by social prejudices, clan concepts and men who were fickle in love.