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"Life of Pi" is a masterpiece by the famous writer Jan Martel. It describes the magical story of an Indian boy and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker who were reborn after drifting in the Pacific for 227 days. "The Truth Behind the Rocamandeo Family in Helsinki" is despair more painful than death, and survival is more torturous than despair. It is a more brain-burning work by the author of "Life of Pi", the Booker Prize winner. Four human stories about life and death have shaken the hearts of millions of readers. The author's inscription is added, the reason for creation is revealed for the first time, and the past, present and future of a writer are reproduced. "The Taxidermist's Script" is a perfect allegory about the Holocaust and cruel human desires. It is another masterpiece by the global best-selling author Jan Martel after "The Life of Pi". It is a bizarre story with endless suspense and intriguing animal metaphors.

It vividly reproduces the colorful European social life at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. The famous illustrator Edward Gorey draws many illustrations, which are wonderful and vivid. It is a selection of Sacchi's short story masters who are as famous as O. Henry. Saki (1870-1916), whose original name was Hector Hugh Munro, was born in Burma and grew up in England. He is known as the most outstanding satirical short story writer in Britain. With his rich experience and outstanding artistic talent, he vividly reproduced the colorful European social life at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. In Europe and the United States, Sacchi is as famous as O. Henry. His works have rigorous structure, clever conception and often unexpected endings. "Selected Short Stories of Saki" collects the works of Saki, the most outstanding British satirical short story writer. These works are selected from his most representative short story collections. Saki wrote 135 short stories in his lifetime. Among them, "Dusk" and "Open Window" are the most famous.

This book selects one novel and five short stories by the author. The novel "The Travels of Sternbald" tells the wandering story of a young and imaginative painter: Sternbald was a student of Dürer, who wanted to achieve and innovate in art. He bid farewell to his mentor and traveled to Italy and other places to study art. On the way, he met people from different social classes, including nobles, knights, businessmen, scholars, farmers, hermits, pilgrims, clergy and vagrants. They all had different views on art, from which he got a lot of inspiration. Passing through his hometown, his father told him before he died that they were just his adoptive parents, but where were his real parents? He is looking for his childhood sweetheart, but where is she now? Two mysteries accompany the novel throughout, leaving readers with suspense. The novel is composed of many interesting scenes: encounters and acquaintances, conversations and arguments, romantic encounters, singing and painting, descriptions of natural scenery and a very poetic and picturesque mood, which give full play to the romantic atmosphere of the novel. The other five short and medium stories are different from ordinary novels in terms of writing techniques and expression techniques. They are full of unique poetic flavor and have certain practical significance. They are rare masterpieces in German romantic literature.

This book selects short stories and short stories by twelve German romantic writers, including Fouquet's "The Water Monster", Chamiso's "The Strange Story of Peter Schlemel", Eichendorff's "The Promising Man", Brentano's "The Faithful Caspar and the Beautiful Annel", Arnim's "The Crazy Disabled Person in the Fortress of Latoneau", etc. They are all famous works by each writer and are very representative among many German romantic writers.

E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) was an important writer of the late German Romantics. Most of his works are mysterious and grotesque, using exaggerated techniques to satirize and expose reality. The alienation of interpersonal relationships described and the techniques used such as free association, inner monologue, exaggerated absurdity, and multi-layered structures have a deep relationship with later modernist literature. The literary creations of later generations and literary genres such as magical realism, stream of consciousness, and absurdism were all greatly influenced by him. The four novels included in this book have different styles and themes. "Choosing a Fiancée" is a realistic novel that mocks the philistines and mediocrity in the real society at that time; "Miss Scodelly" is a historical novel that writes an anecdote in the Louis XIV era of France; "The Dwarf" "Chaches" is a fairy tale novel, which profoundly exposes the shady scenes and ugliness in the palace; while "Monster" is a magic novel, about a Prussian officer who was affected by witchcraft and showed a series of weird behaviors, reflecting people's hope that monsters can change people's destiny.

"The Troubles of Birth" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Takero Arishima, a representative writer of the Shirakaba School in Japan. "The Troubles of Birth" successfully created the image of a young artist from a fisherman's family, reflecting the contradiction between art and life, ideal and reality. The work brilliantly depicts the magnificent scene of Hokkaido fishermen fighting against nature. The author used the scene to convey his emotions, expressing his strong indignation at the social environment at that time and his deep sympathy for the suffering life and mental outlook of the lower class people. It is a classic work selected as a Chinese language textbook for Japanese middle schools. This collection also includes works such as "Grass Under a Stone", which describes revenge against his wife, "The French Girl", which praises the innocent soul, and "The Legend of the West", which interprets sacred beliefs. These works include the Bible's thoughts on human love and Tolstoy's humanitarian thoughts, as well as Kropotkin's anarchist thoughts and Whitman's thoughts about praising freedom. They are full of Japanese Shirakaba writers' emphasis on self-emphasis and personality development.

"The Missing" is Kafka's first novel. It tells the story of the protagonist Karl who was seduced by a middle-aged maid at the age of 16 and gave birth to a child with her. His father angrily kicked him out of the house. He wandered to the United States alone and became a master with the help of his rich uncle. However, he went against his uncle's wishes and associated with the "bad guys". He had a fierce relationship with two tramps and became someone else's servant and an errand boy in a brothel. The novel is full of comedy and makes people laugh. "Proceedings" is the author's earliest known novel. It exposes the judicial insiders of the dark society and the corrupt bureaucracy: Bank assistant K is an upright, diligent and capable man, but he was suddenly arrested on his 30th birthday. He felt that the matter was absurd and It's also funny. After many inquiries, he learned that there was a court investigating him; he tried to seek help from the people around him, but no one paid attention; seeking a defense was in vain, and he was helpless... The plot of the novel is confusing and thought-provoking.

"White Nights" is a collection of novellas by Dostoyevsky, the great Russian writer of the 19th century, which includes the famous stories "The Poor Man", "White Nights" and "The Gambler". "White Nights" describes the innocent girl Nastenka falling in love with a young tenant. The two agreed to meet on a bridge in Petersburg a year later, but the tenant did not show up. The protagonist "Dreamer" was deeply moved by the girl's affection and waited with her by the river for four consecutive nights until the tenant showed up.

This book includes all eight novels by the author. Among them, "Marquise O" portrays the image of a woman who dares to control her own destiny and is not bound by feudal ethics; "Chile Earthquake" uses a major earthquake in history as the background to describe the tragic experience of a pure young couple. The novel is considered to be the best work of "disaster literature"; several other stories are also very distinctive, with tense plots and concise language.

This book includes all of Kafka's short and medium stories, among which "The Metamorphosis", "In the Penal Colony", "Before the Gate of Law", "The Hungry Artist", "The Country Teacher", etc. Are all popular masterpieces. They all use symbols, metaphors, exaggeration and other techniques, with vivid plots and concise and smooth language; the stories are weird and bizarre, with no definite time and place, no cause and effect, giving people a dreamy, mysterious and strange feeling. The protagonists of the works are almost always in a situation where they can't help themselves. They all have their own goals in the bizarre world, but they often end up failing.

This book selects nine representative works from Chen Zhongshi's short and medium-sized novels: "Canner", "Uncle Marlow", "The Furry Sour Apricot", "Go Behind the Old Poplar Tree", "Two Friends", "Days", "Li Shisan Pushing the Mill", "Eighteen-Year-Old Brother" and "Mr. Blue Robe". Chen Zhongshi penetrates deeply into all aspects of rural life and outlines many rural characters with distinctive personalities. The works contain profound local sentiments, are full of thoughts on the fate of characters and reflection on human nature, and show unique artistic charm in their plainness and simplicity.

The selected collection of Su Tong's works released this time (a set of 13 volumes in total) is a new and authoritative version launched by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House in 2020. It combines Su Tong's classic works "Red Pink", "Mi" and "My Emperor's Life" Thirteen novellas and short stories including "Poppy House", "Cavalry", "Why Snakes Fly", "Taming a Child", "Wu Zetian", "Northern Zone", "Bodhisattva Barbarian", "Tattoo Age", "Goddess Peak" and "Sunflower" are included. "Red Pink": "Red Pink" is a story about a prostitute. The willful and cowardly Xiaoe, the strong and calm Qiuyi. There is also a man surrounding them - Lao Pu. Every character in this story has a graceful relationship and destiny, and in the end they converge into a tragic song about women. Under the control of fate, no one is exempt. These women have all lost to fate. The film adaptation of "Pink", directed by Li Shaohong and starring Wang Ji, Wang Zhiwen and He Saifei, caused a sensation among the audience. This collection of novellas includes five classic novellas: "Pink", "Divorce Guide", "Married Man", "Calm Like Water" and "Hello, Beekeeper". "Mi": "Mi" tells the story of the protagonist Wu Long's life journey of escaping from hunger and poverty, accompanied by the decadence of three generations of a family, the entanglement and conflict between the countryside and the city, and falling into the trap of sexual desire as his appetite is satisfied. The five dragons came for "rice" and finally died on the pile of rice on the train back home. The whole novel is full of pleasure to read and contains many deep meanings. "Rice" was adapted into the movie "Dahong Rice Store", which became a very controversial work in the history of Chinese film. ...

Su Tong is the undoubted king of Chinese short stories. He is a man with dreams, a writer who can create worlds in words. He used a kind of gentle rebellion, elegant imagination and the perceptual beauty of words to construct a rich and vast literary kingdom for himself, and thus marked the height that contemporary China has reached in terms of literary fiction and spiritual imagination. "Cavalry" contains important short stories in his creative history, presenting Su Tong's literary charm in many aspects.

Su Tong is the undoubted king of Chinese short stories. He is a man with dreams, a writer who can create worlds in words. He used a kind of gentle rebellion, elegant imagination and the perceptual beauty of words to construct a rich and vast literary kingdom for himself, and thus marked the height that contemporary China has reached in terms of literary fiction and spiritual imagination. "Goddess Peak" collects important short stories in his creative history, showing Su Tong's literary charm.

The narration of Su Tong's novels is elegant and calm, pure as water, written plainly but full of meaning; the writing is elegant and full of Jiangnan sentiment; the narrative and lyricism are perfectly combined, and the writing style is unique. "The Taming of Children" is another masterpiece of his, which includes novellas such as "Spring in the Meat Factory", "Osmanthus Chain Group", "The Taming of Children" and "Letter from the Masses".

Su Tong is the undoubted king of Chinese short stories. He is a man with dreams, a writer who can create worlds in words. He used a kind of gentle rebellion, elegant imagination and the perceptual beauty of words to construct a rich and vast literary kingdom for himself, and thus marked the height that contemporary China has reached in terms of literary fiction and spiritual imagination. "Sunflower" collects important short stories in his creative history, showing Su Tong's literary charm.

While I was enjoying the masterpiece "Recollections of a Hundred Years Old - Ten Years of Vicissitudes" by centenarian Ma Shitu, Mr. Tong Xuande called and said that the articles he had written in the past few years were sorted out and ready for publication. In the joy, I felt even more moved. In my hometown of Shengzhou, I have many friends, but it is Mr. Tong Xuande who always hears blessings during festive seasons. It is true that his hearing has declined due to his advanced age. When I answer his call, I have to relax my throat so that he will not only hear one thing but not the other and bother to think about it.

Lonely high school students, children in the dark, another self desperately crying for help in a parallel world, whether they are mystery suspense or fantasy science fiction, these six stories actually take place in reality. "Hakoba" is a microscopic landscape that belongs to everyone and a psychological therapy that belongs to everyone - "Convenience Store Hiyori!" Two students working in a convenience store met a robber who entered the store to rob the store at the last moment before getting off work... "White Footprints" The footprints that appeared on the snow out of thin air were a distress signal sent by the person in the parallel world. Can I save her? "Wonderland" A child with excellent academic performance accidentally picks up a key and searches for the keyhole, but accidentally discovers a murder... "Novelist's Creation Method" A boy bullied by his classmates wants to become a novelist. Can that really change his destiny? "Flag of the Kingdom" A high school girl who ran away from home accidentally entered the children's night kingdom and was imprisoned. Can she escape? "Youth Insulator" A lonely junior and an unsociable senior can only warm each other up with poisonous tongues in the club, despicable and cowardly escaping reality, what should we do to continue living?

This book is a collection of personal poems and essays, aimed at poetry lovers. The content of the book collects the author's wonderful feelings about work and life as a front-line educator in the past five years. The views are positive and healthy, the poems are passionate, and the singing objects include a wide range of objects: "Appreciation of famous quotes, travel experiences, messages from publications, conference speeches, my university, work feelings, local feelings, phenomenon reflections, life insights." The nine parts fully demonstrate the good literary skills and the candle spirit of dedication and dedication; at the same time, I also want to use these words to stimulate the literary enthusiasm of the students, encourage the next generation to maintain good character and actively respond to various challenges in life.

This is a collection of original short stories. The author has a unique perspective and skillful literary writing skills, and has established a unique appeal and style: Among them, "Buddha's Sound" tells the story of the fate between a "strange" pilgrim and a young novice monk in a declining temple during the Anti-Japanese War. It has a Zen and compassionate feeling of "seeing oneself, seeing the world, and seeing all living beings." In addition, short stories such as "Azalea" reflect the hearts and perceptions of ordinary people through true portrayals of the fate of small people in the progress of urban development.

Following "Suddenly, There Was a Knock at the Door", this is a new collection of stories written by the master of short stories Etgar Keret. There is no one like Etgar Keret. His stories often take place at the crossroads of the strange, the searing, and the jubilant. What his characters struggle with are parents and family, war and games, tobacco, alcohol and cake, memory and love. These stories never reach the usually expected ending, but they always bring surprise, joy and touching. "The Penultimate Time I Got Shot Out of a Cannon" tells the story of a sad and funny circus cannonball trapeze artist. "Compressed Car" tells the story of a man who displayed a car compressed into a block of iron in his living room. "To the Moon and Back" tells the story of a man who wants to buy a store cash register as a gift for his son. "Good Things" tells the story of a homeless man who develops an app to locate homeless people, and then allows people to do good deeds and get comfort - although doing good does not always bring comfort and good results. "Sugar Cake" tells the story of a 50-year-old useless son who won the lottery but gave up the prize and chose to continue living with his mother. "Mashed Potatoes with Dad" tells the story of two little daughters who want to save their father who turns into a rabbit. "Ladder to Heaven" tells the story of a melancholy angel who wants to return to the human world...

A collection of the essence of early short stories written by Keret, the author of "Suddenly, There Was a Knock on the Door" and a master of short stories. Brief, fierce, painfully funny, and astonishingly honest, Etgar Keret's stories are snapshots of life's hidden truths that are illuminated with intelligence and wisdom. Like the best novelists, joy and pain are the two pillars of his work. These novels, full of novelty and humanity, are a must-see for readers who love Etgar Keret's inimitable personal style and his clever and varied novels. "The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be a God" tells the story of a bus driver who never opens the door for late passengers. "Memorial from Hell" tells the story of a woman who falls in love with a man from hell. "The Hole in the Wall" tells the story of a lonely man who made a wish to be friends with an angel and got his wish. "Smashing the Piggy" tells the story of a boy who was asked by his father to smash his piggy bank in order to buy a doll. "Good Intentions" tells the story of a killer who is hired to kill a good man with the most upright moral character in the world...

The novel is a 19th-century semi-epistolary one. Armadale is a novel by Wilkie Collins, first published in 1864-66. Some linking passages consist of letters between the various characters, or of extracts from Lydia's journal, but the great majority of the text narrates the events as they occur. The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale).'The distortions of the plot, the violent and irrational reactions of the characters, reflect and dramatize the ways in which his readers' perceptions were distorted by the assumptions and hypocrisies of the society in which they lived,\

This set of books includes a total of 6 volumes including "The History of Zen Zen in 3 Volumes" and "The Empress of Zen in 3 Volumes". "Historical Martial Arts Novels of the Ming Dynasty: Zen Zhenyi Shi" writes about the events of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, also known as "The Outer History of Can Liang" and "The Complete Biography of Miaoxiang Temple"). The book has a total of eight volumes and 40 chapters. The characters in the book, such as Gao Huan, Gao Cheng, Hou Jing, Ding He, Xiao Zhengde, Xie Ju, Zhu Yi, He Shikai, etc., All exist in history; Xue Ju, Du Fuwei, and Zhang Shanxiang are all famous generals, and they are biographies in both the new and old "Book of Tang"; only Dan Ran and Zhong Shoujing are fictional. The events of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the first half of the book are roughly based on historical facts, while the second half is about Du Fuwei and other personnel, which is far from historical facts. The plot of this book is very tortuous, and the overall structure is a Buddhist story. It first writes about Dan Ran's virtues, aiming to emphasize the spiritual cultivation of Buddhism, and then focuses on the affairs of Du Fuwei and others to show Dan Ran's career and high demeanor. Generally speaking, this book can be regarded as a variant of historical novel. "The Later History of Zen" is a sequel to "The History of Zen", with sixty chapters, describing the court politics, military wars, and social life dynamics during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty. In the late Zhenguan years of the Tang Dynasty, God ordered Xue Ju, who had become an immortal, to come down to earth and be born as a human in Luxi Prefecture, named Qu Yan, in order to eliminate riots in the world and destroy the atmosphere of demons. Under the guidance of the immortal monk Qu Yan Jing, he has mastered the Five Classics and is skilled in martial arts. When he grew older, he killed strange monks, punished rape and evil, subdued demons and demons, and finally retreated bravely. He practiced with the immortal monk Lin Danran, escaped into Zen, became a Buddha and ascended to heaven.

This set of books includes "4 volumes of Yingyun Meng Zhuan", "4 volumes of Brothel Dream", "2 volumes of Hua Tu Yuan" and "Part 1 and 2 of Beloved", a total of 12 volumes. "The Story of Yingyun Meng" is a vernacular novel, also known as "The Story of Yingyun Meng" and "The Story of Yingyun Meng". The book consists of eight volumes and sixteen chapters. The book interprets the marriage and love story of Suzhou talent Wang Yun and beauties Wu Mengyun and Teng Yingniang. "A Dream of Brothels" mainly tells the story of Jin Yixiang, a popular and talented scholar in Wu, who met and fell in love with thirty-six beauties. Jin Yixiang, a popular scholar in Wu, was good at poetry writing since childhood. He was well-read in poetry and books. He was talented, well-educated, and elegant. However, Jin Yixiang never had the idea of ​​marrying a wife. He hung out with prostitutes all day long. Later, during a dinner party, Jin Yixiang met thirty-six of the world's most beautiful beauties, and gradually fell in love with thirty-six beauties. The protagonist Kim Ye-hyang in "A Dream of a Brothel" is his own incarnation, and he uses "A Dream of a Brothel" to express his ideals. At that time, it was widely circulated and had a great influence. The old engraving of "Hua Tuyuan" from the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty is titled "Buyue Master Bian". "Hua Tu Yuan" is also known as "Hua Tian He Zhuan", "Hua Tu Yuan Ping Yi Zhuan" and "Hua Tu Yuan Jin Yu Yuan", etc. From these nicknames, we can feel that "Hua Tu Yuan" has some plots beyond the boudoir study. The novel narrates the story of the male protagonist Hua Tianhe, who gets advice from a strange person to accept the imperial edict and marry the heroine Liu Lanyu. The novels of gifted men and beautiful women have developed to this stage, and there are traces of the author's efforts in breaking the mold and making innovations. Moreover, legends and wars are mixed into boudoir novels, making them reflect fantasy and worldly sentiments in the lingering affection.

This set of books includes a total of 13 volumes including "The Complete Biography of Jintai in 5 volumes", "Eight Beautiful Pictures", "The Complete Biography of Borneo", "The Peach Blossom Girl's Yin and Yang Fight" and "The Combined Biography of Xia and Shang in 3 volumes". "The Story of Jintai" and "The Complete Story of Jintai" describe that the famous prostitutes in Orchid Court are Duohua, Liu Xiaomei and Su Xiaomei, who are famous fireworks women in Yangzhou, with the best appearance and versatile talents. One day, Zhang Qi and Zheng Qian, the sworn brothers of Beizhou's little bully Jin Tai, were joking with three famous prostitutes in the Orchid Garden. They clashed with a hairless insect that came to play - Tantai Leopard, the son of Tantai Hui, the first-grade grand master of the dynasty. ... "The Eight Beautiful Pictures" has a total of thirty-two chapters. It was published in the Qing Dynasty, and the author cannot be verified. The story of the book revolves around the joys and sorrows experienced by Liu Shuchun, a native of Hangzhou in the Song Dynasty. The plot is tortuous and full of interest. The author has created eight beauties with distinctive images. They are full of personality, rebellious and unyielding, and are different from traditional women. Therefore, they are unforgettable to read, but at the same time they are rejected by people. The book describes many love stories between men and women, and is also full of deviant flavor. Therefore, it was criticized by conservative people at the time and was even burned.

This set of books includes a total of 3 volumes: "Mother", "Occasional Grass" and "Social Opera". "Mother" Shi Pingmei is a modern Chinese female writer and revolutionary activist. Most of her works have the theme of pursuing love, truth, and longing for freedom and light. "Mother" is an anthology of her essays, which includes "Mother", "Jadeweed", "Lusha", "Mei Yin", "Wash the Jade", "Su Xin", "To the Luyin", "To the Jadeweed in the Mountains", "To an Old Friend on the Seaside", "Tian Xin", "After Being Slightly Drunk", "Father's Rope", "Melancholy after Waking Up", "Night Flight", "Sacrifice" and other works. The content of these works involves facial expressions and rich emotions. "Accidental Grass" "Accidental Grass" is a collection of her essays, including 20 articles, namely: "Horror", "Send to Prison", "Late Night Talk", "Sleep Talk", "Graveside Elegy", "Accidental Grass", "Ashes", "Melancholy" "A Letter from Huijuan", "A Night in the Flower Temple", "Plum Blossom Deer", "Green House", "Yun Qin", "Dong Ersao", "Blood Corpse", "Snowy Night", "The morning glow reflects my face", "Looking down at the moon in the water", "I am lost in bitter memories". Among them, "Crying Hezhen" can be compared with Mr. Lu Xun's "In Memory of Mr. Liu Hezhen", which is a reflection of the social reality at that time.

Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens which satirises the shortcomings of both government and society, including the institution of debtors prisons, where debtors were imprisoned, unable to work, until they repaid their debts. The prison in this case is the Marshalsea, where Dickens's own father had been imprisoned. Dickens is also critical of the lack of a social safety net, the treatment and safety of industrial workers, as well the bureaucracy of the British Treasury, in the form of his fictional \

Barnaby Rudge was the fifth of Dickens ' novels to be published. It had originally been planned to appear as his first, but changes of publisher led to many delays, and it first appeared in serial form in the Clock from February to November 1841. Set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780, Barnaby Rudge is a story of mystery and suspense which begins with an unsolved double murder and goes on to involve conspiracy, blackmail, abduction and retribution. Through the course of the novel fathers and sons become opposed, apprentices plot against their masters and Protestants clash with Catholics on the streets. And, as London erupts into riot, Barnaby Rudge himself struggles to escape the curse of his own past. With its dramatic descriptions of public violence and private horror, its strange secrets and ghostly doublings, Barnaby Rudge is a powerful, disturbing blend of historical realism and Gothic melodrama.

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This book is the second type of the collection. It is a collection of the most important work "Li Tongzhong" and his only full-length novel "The Station". It is also a commemorative edition of Mr. Yi Gong. The former is the pioneer work that leads "scar literature" to in-depth "reflective literature" and has an undisputed historical status in the history of contemporary literature. "The Station" won the 9th "Five One Project" Award for National Spiritual Civilization Construction and is an important representative work in his late creative period.

"The Twelfth Floor" is also called "Awakening of the World", a collection of short stories. There are 12 novels in total, all with the name of the building as the title. Each chapter has a different number of chapters, and the order of arrangement is also different in each volume. Most of the 12 novels take the love and marriage of talented men and beautiful women as their theme, and also touch on many aspects of urban life, such as recounting the notes of predecessors, recording the author's experiences, narrating historical stories, or making up stories out of thin air to describe the world and human conditions. The writing style is clear and smooth, the plot is vivid and tortuous, and the characters are lively and interesting. It has been widely circulated and had a great influence. The book was banned and destroyed many times after its publication. "Collection of Classical Masterpieces: The Twelfth Floor" has a distinct theme and clear clues. The central character runs through the whole story, and there are no ramifications in the narrative process. The plot design is novel and unique, and the twists and turns are as surprising as possible, and the suspense series is unexpected, but the connection is natural and reasonable, leaving no flaws. And the ending is unexpected and reasonable.

"Disqualification in the World" is an autobiographical novel. The preface and appendix are narrated in the author's voice, and the three notebooks are narrated in the voice of the protagonist Ye Zang. The protagonist Ye Zang is cowardly and timid, afraid to face all the emotions in the world, and does not understand the complex inner world of human beings. He hides his true self by making others happy, uses drinking to have fun to escape the world, and ultimately leads to destruction. This kind of confusion runs through the youth of the author and everyone; he is tortured by pain and confusion, and he spends his life seeking love and avoiding love due to self-weariness. To be disqualified in the human world means to have lost the qualifications to be a human being. Through the experience of the novel's protagonist Ye Zang, Dazai Osamu expressed the real pain in his life. This work is considered an autobiographical novel. In the same year of its publication, Osamu Dazai drowned and died. "The Clown's Flower" is also known as "The Flower of Taoism". In 1930, when Osamu Dazai was 21 years old, he met a young married woman in Ginza, Tokyo, and the two committed suicide by drowning in Kamakura. Later, Dazai Osamu was rescued, but the other party died unfortunately. Osamu Dazai was charged with "assisted suicide" but was not prosecuted. This incident became an unforgettable crime for Dazai Osamu, and he created the novel "Clown Flower" based on this experience. "Clown's Flower" is considered to be the prelude and starting point of creation of "The Lost World", and its protagonist is the same person as Oba Yezo in "The Lost World". "The God of Kyogen" In 1935, at the age of 26, Osamu Dazai attempted to hang himself on Mount Kamakura after failing to apply for a job at the Tokyo Metropolitan News Agency. "The God of Kyogen" tells the story of the protagonist, Kazuo Kazuo, who committed suicide after failing to apply for a newspaper job. Dazai Osamu admitted in the article that all of this was his own personal experience. "Imaginary Spring", "Clown's Flower", "The God of Madness" and "Imaginary Spring" all belong to the "Imaginary Wandering" trilogy. "Imaginary Spring" tells the story of Osamu Dazai's downfall, depression and spiritual self-criticism in his life through the perspective of others in the form of letters. The book not only talks about Dazai Osamu's past relationships again, but also explains his literary ideals. "Flagbearer of the Twentieth Century" In 1936, Osamu Dazai experienced numerous embarrassments including appendicitis complicated by peritonitis, drug poisoning, and failure to win the Akutagawa Prize. In a desperate situation, Osamu Dazai wrote the sentence "I'm sorry for being born human" under the title of this work. The novel tells the story of Dazai Osamu who tried his best to fight against life, but encountered various misfortunes in turn. Osamu Dazai said: "I wrote "The Standard Bearer of the Twentieth Century" in extreme despair; but I still firmly believe that on the other side of despair, there must be hope." "Cherry" June 13, 1948, heavy rain poured down. Dazai Osamu and female reader Yamazaki Furei committed suicide by throwing themselves into the Tamagawa River. Six days later, their bodies were found under the bridge, on his birthday. Since then, June 19th every year has been regarded as the anniversary of Dazai Osamu's death. On this day, fresh cherries are placed in front of Dazai Osamu's tomb to hold a "cherry memorial ceremony". The name Sakura Ji comes from the novel "Cherry" published one year before his suicide, which tells the helpless life between Dazai Osamu and his wife and children. This work is considered to be Osamu Dazai's last literary legacy.

This book is a result of the "micro-essay" activity carried out by the School of Marxism at Sichuan University in 2018 on the platform of the course "Introduction to the Theoretical System of Mao Zedong Thought and Socialism with Chinese Characteristics". It uses poetry, scripts, essays and other genres to present college students' understanding of the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and their understanding of Sichuan University's striving to become a new generation of the times.

Open the reader version of "My Life" and read novels to learn writing! Recommended books for primary and secondary school libraries of the Ministry of Education! "My Life" was first published in 1937. Lao She used many citizen novels to successfully integrate the popular and literary nature of language, which has a very prominent position in the development of modern Chinese novel art! The depth, passion and humor in Lao She's novels are universal and transcend national boundaries. --Le Clézio (Nobel Prize winner in literature, French writer). The new "Reader's Edition" of "My Life" must be read for the following reasons: 1. Based on Mr. Lao She's autobiography, it contains a complete collection of 20 short stories by Lao She. 2. Specially includes 9 articles on Lao She's writing experience to learn from the master's writing skills. 3. Comes with a chronology of Lao She's novel creation, allowing you to get up close and personal with Lao She's life. 4. The original version of the Republic of China, carefully arranged, edited and annotated. The book is based on Mr. Lao She's autobiography, and selects 20 short stories and short stories from different periods and types, which comprehensively displays the style of Lao She's short stories and short stories. At the same time, 9 pieces of Lao She's own writing experience are specially included, and a "Chronology of Lao She's Novels" is specially produced to help readers better understand Lao She and appreciate the writing skills of "language master" Lao She up close.

This is a collection of cat-themed stories, written not only for cat lovers, but also for children. The author depicts a total of 72 cats. Each cat symbolizes a different human being, and each cat has its own personality. The book contains 72 fairy tales, fables, animal stories, etc. Each story contains one or more cats. Some of them are cute, some are smart, some are kind, but some are rude, rude and stupid. Most of the stories are short, concise and thought-provoking. Some reflect human nature and social problems through animals, some follow social trends and criticize current ills, and some subvert fixed thinking and inspire people.

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This set of books is selected from the 1994 collated version of "The Complete Works of Kafka" published by Fischer Publishing House in Germany, and includes all novels, novellas and short stories written by the author (published and unpublished during his lifetime). The reason why this prestigious revised version was selected is that it is faithfully based on Kafka's manuscript. It not only retains the irregular punctuation marks and unusual writing style of the original work, but also highlights the completed and unfinished parts of the original work. It also corrects errors in some other versions, and faithfully reproduces the style of the author's manuscript.

This anthology is compiled and selected by Peking University's latest contemporary works review forum. Its authoritative standards, style selection, simple stance, and close comments leave a reliable anthology for the history of contemporary literature.

"Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals" is a compilation of satirical articles, stories and novels published in magazines in installments from 1840 to 1842, with illustrations from 1841 to 1842, and with the subtitle "A Study of Modern Customs", published in two volumes by Hazel Press. The writing of the article was initiated by Pierre-Jules Hesel, who is also one of the main authors, and his pseudonym is P.-J. Starr. Participating in the writing are Honoré Balzac, Charles Nodier, George Sand, Emile de la Bédorier, Gustave Trotz, Jules Janan, Paul de Musset, etc. The illustrator is the famous printmaker Grandville. The book was a huge success after its publication and had been reprinted five times by 1845. This book is translated based on the French J. Hetzel, éditeur's 1842 edition and MM. Marescq et Compagnie's 1852 edition.

"Snow Country Tribulation": Keigo Higashino's new entertainment suspense experience, no one can stop before reading it! "On behalf of the earth, I want to punish you who are the culprits of destroying the natural environment." A threatening letter filled with nonsense actually involved the entire ski resort into a bomb crisis. "Magic Fetal Movement": If you like "The Worry-Relief Grocery Store", you must read this book. When you have something you want to protect, life becomes powerful. The desolate life, the riddled destiny, the occurrence and redemption of tragedies make people sigh endlessly when reading it. "Dream Flower": No book has ever made me devote so much effort to this suspenseful masterpiece that Keigo Higashino conceived for ten years. For the first time, the creation notes are included. Sales in Japan exceeded one million copies. "Don't look for fantasy flowers! Once you pursue them, you will destroy yourself!" "Laplace's Witch": This novel transcends crime and sociality, and is concerned with the more core of society: ethics. "I wanted to destroy the novel I wrote before, so this work was born" - Keigo Higashino. "Dangerous Venus": A work that even Keigo Higashino himself cannot easily evaluate. After reading "Dangerous Venus", you will find that you have never understood Keigo Higashino before. Different from works such as "Malevolence", "Dangerous Venus" exhausts the complex side of human nature: everyone has the instinct to do good and the motivation to do evil; there is rationality and there are also irrepressible and crazy desires. "Platinum Data": After "The Devotion of Suspect X", the brain-burning masterpiece of the king of reasoning, Keigo Higashino. It has a depth worthy of repeated reflection, far beyond the scope of "mysterious novels". From one soul to another, it is self-salvation and a deep understanding of human nature. "Japanese Oscar" winner Kazuya Ninomiya starred in the original novel of the movie of the same name, and the Japanese version sold 1.7 Million copies. In the final analysis, this book is still human. Question. "The House of Sleeping Mermaid": After "The Sorrow Store", Keigo Higashino is another comforting work. It is both sad and warm. This is a story that makes us face life again. No mystery novel is as heartbreaking as this one; and no book gives us the belief in "life" like this one.

"Yilou Zhao" is a contemporary martial arts novel. It tells the story of the Rong Dynasty, which was more than sixty years after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The country was at its peak, the military was strong and the people were prosperous. The new emperor Bai Hong inherited the legacy of the previous emperor and ascended the throne as emperor, but he was questioned because of his royal bloodline. Three years after he ascended the throne, he personally conquered the Da Yuezhi. He was away all year round, and his military exploits were unmistakable, causing shock to both the government and the public. Louwailou is a sacred place that has emerged in recent decades, with rich collections and many masters. The envoy announced the list and selected five people from the list to go to the building outside the building. The scholar Zhang Qiuchi became one of them inexplicably. From then on, he ran into the weird martial arts world and became entangled in the storms of Kyushu. "Analysis of Kongru's Chao" is a fantasy novel composed of 12 consecutive strange ghost stories such as "Xin'an King", "Peach Blossom Bridge" and "Beehive Volute". The story takes place in the ancient city of Huizhou during the third year of Qiandao in the Southern Song Dynasty. The characters in the novel appear in multiple stories, and the characters interact with each other, weaving the scattered stories into a whole. The eminent monk Xikong appears in all the stories. Through his wisdom and Dharma eyes, he penetrates the world and the truth, forming a romantic fantasy work full of legend and Zen philosophy.

"Selected Short Stories of Chekhov": includes more than 10 famous short stories by Chekhov, such as "The Chameleon", "The Man in the Trap", "Death of a Civilian", "The Man with the Mask", etc. They are not only the author's masterpieces, but also famous works of Russian literature at the end of the 19th century. The period when Chekhov lived and created was an era of great changes in Russian history. On the one hand, dark forces were rampant and the social atmosphere was suffocating. On the other hand, the Russian workers' revolutionary movement was rising and people's minds were changing. Chekhov's works are a portrayal of this drastic change in social life, and extremely profoundly and truly reflect the life reality of the great changes in Russian society at the end of the 19th century...

As one of the "Valuable Reading" series of the Humanities Society, this book selects Feng Jicai's most representative short stories and prose works to date, reflecting Feng Jicai's overall creative style. The titles include short stories: Beard, Tall Woman and Her Short Husband, Singer on the Roof, Carved Pipe, Old Couple and Old Wife, Cannons with Double Lanterns, Su Qikuan, Liquor Woman, Zhang Dali, Brush Li, Clay Figure Zhang, Good-mouthed Yang Ba, Recognition of Teeth, Dead Bird, Little Yang Yue Lou's Betrothal to Li Jin, novella: Divine Whip, and some representative prose.

This collection of Lao She's classic novellas describes the profound and dark reality of society at that time with fresh and natural pen and ink.

Mark Twain, American humorist, novelist, famous speaker, and an outstanding representative of American realist literature in the late 19th century. The style of his works is mainly humorous and satirical, rich in unique personal wit and witty remarks, but also profound social insight and analysis. The main representative works include "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", etc. This book selects 200,000 words of his excellent short stories and short stories for readers.

This book is selected from the revised version of "The Complete Works of Kafka" published by Fischer Publishing House in Germany in 1994, including all novellas and short stories created by the author (published and unpublished during his lifetime). The reason why this prestigious revised version was selected is that it is faithfully based on Kafka's manuscript. It not only retains the irregular punctuation marks and unusual writing style of the original work, but also highlights the completed and unfinished parts of the original work. It also corrects errors in some other versions, and faithfully reproduces the style of the author's manuscript. This book provides a more authoritative translation for Kafka lovers.

"The Brothers Karamazov" is one of the masterpieces of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the great Russian writer of the 19th century. The novel "The Brothers Karamazov" uses a real patricide case to describe the sharp conflict between the old Karamazov and his three sons, that is, two generations. The work shows an intricate social family, moral and human tragedy, and embodies the highest artistic achievement of the writer's life.

This book contains more than 20 of the most representative short stories and short stories by the famous Austrian writer Zweig. Among them, "Letter from a Strange Woman", "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life", "The Malay Madman", "The Story of Chess", "The Invisible Treasure", etc. Are all must-read masterpieces for Zweig fans. The book is also equipped with dozens of exquisite illustrations, hoping to bring reading enjoyment to readers.