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This is a story that explores people's inner secrets. It has been less than a month since Xiang Jian joined the community as a volunteer. According to other people's descriptions, he was a neighborhood hero who walked across a six-meter beam to save his neighbor who fell off the platform and resisted his fear of heights. He was a super social worker who raced against death while carrying an old man on his back to help his neighbor's grandmother who had passed out. However, to Xiang Jian, he is more like a recipient of painful worries. Behind every seemingly trivial family matter, hidden is often the old illness that traverses the family members. Time wraps up conflicts and misunderstandings layer by layer, forming a thick cocoon to protect the lonely and fragile self-esteem. In the process of peeling off the cocoon, Xiang Jian was angry and moved. Kindness and selfishness almost tore him in half, and the knot that had been hidden for many years was gradually devouring his normal life...

This book is a novel adapted from a true story. The protagonist, Shaohua, has gone through years of hard work, and in the middle of life, she has begun to reap the benefits of life. She thought she would spend the rest of her peaceful life in a happy family life, but her husband's sudden betrayal caused her to fall into the cruel vortex of reality, leaving her covered with bruises. Under the pressure of life, how can she restart the future of her son and herself? After immigrating overseas, how do you face unexpected emotional entanglements and cultural conflicts and rise from the shadow of failure? She is not a person, but a group of women wandering overseas, seeking an ideal life and true heart. Faced with Yi Lao's beauty, the pressure of life and an unfamiliar culture, how can they face their inner loneliness and shoulder the burden of life alone? This is not only a true story of disillusionment, struggle and rebirth of overseas immigrant women, but also a realistic picture reflecting the living conditions and social anxiety of overseas Chinese.

"Horqin Banner Grassland" is a long masterpiece by the famous writer Duanmu Hongliang. It is included in the volume of the "Northeast Exile Literature Historical Materials and Research Series" edited by Zhang Fugui. The book has nineteen chapters in total, with the Horqin Banner grassland as the background, telling the story of the fateful changes of several generations of the Ding family in Erluhu Village. The protagonist Ding Ning in the novel left his hometown in an era of great changes. After receiving unprecedented scientific and cultural education, he returned to his hometown full of enthusiasm and determined to carry out transformation. In the conflict with the traditional ideas of the old era, Ding Ning soon fell into an inextricable contradiction. At the same time, he also saw that his hometown on the grassland contained profound vitality, but the resistance to untying this knot came precisely from his own family. After going through various tests, Ding Ning gained a profound and true understanding, and also experienced renewed growth from the inside out. The work uncovers the trauma of thousands of years of spiritual slavery for the people at the bottom of society, and vividly reveals the subtle psychology of various characters.

"Looking for Zhang Zhan" is an original novel with the theme of reflecting the growth of contemporary youth. The work has a unique structure and is divided into upper and lower parts. The upper part "Searching" tells the story of "I" struggling to find Zhang Zhan, a high school classmate of my son, for his scientific research in China. During the search process, "I" came into contact with several important figures in Zhang Zhan's growth, but the Zhang Zhan they mentioned was a completely different Zhang Zhan. Until "I" met Zhang Zhan himself, but his complete avoidance of "I" made "I" still confused, which only increased my curiosity. The lower part "Zhang Zhan" tells the story that just when "I" was unable to understand Zhang Zhan's behavior and inner world, Zhang Zhan sent "me" a long letter, and this long letter plus "my" comments formed the second half of the manuscript. In the lower part, Zhang Zhan told "me" everything about him without reservation, and finally the truth came out.

The work mainly describes the life of the royal family of a certain European country. Emperor Oscar is headstrong and dictatorial; Queen Elizabeth is beautiful and noble; Crown Prince Osoma is rational and sympathetic to the people, but indecisive. He seriously doubts his right to inherit the throne, but he is in the world and can't help it... Interspersed with the Crown Prince The underground love affair with the married Duchess Yemena, and the "normal love" between Prince Osoma and Princess Valerie, who was manipulated by the royal family... If "The Royal Family" is an allusive novel, then it is not too much to call Kupelles a "prophet". No chronicle of emperors can be written with such insight. Under the surface of a love story, "The Royal Family" is more like an in-depth analysis of human nature and psychology. Everything about royalty and aristocracy exudes a charming charm that is irresistible. The story took on new life in the hands of Kupelus, who gave its characters various dramatic plots. The publication of this work caused quite a stir at the time.

Regarding Christmas, you definitely know that there is Santa Claus, there are Christmas trees, there are Christmas gifts, there is Christmas shopping spree; you may also know that there are Christmas carols, there are church services, there are mistletoe and holly; but do you also know the custom of burning the Christmas log? Still know the secret to the quirky dishes and bowls of wine served at traditional Christmas dinner? Do you still know the ghost stories that people in the English countryside love to tell on Christmas Eve? Please follow Washington Irving as he visits an ancient English manor and witnesses how a traditional family spends the twelve days of Christmas happily.

This book is Thorne Smith's most poignant social satire and humorous novel, set during the implementation of the Volstead Act (the Prohibition Act). A stubborn, unrestrained older man and woman are celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of their successful mutual seduction. Rex Pebble, a fashionable older man, is having a tryst with another woman behind his wife's back, while his partner, Spray Summers, is a difficult lover. Their Japanese male servant Nojima's behavior is infuriating, he drinks excessively, and uses English as judo to talk to his master. The two slipped into the garden swimming pool. They didn't know that the water in the pool had just possessed the magic power to return people to youth. The man and woman threw away their clothes and modesty. After emerging from the water, they suddenly looked decades younger and regained their youthful bodies. The two experienced and skillful people, plus a girl who turned into a sculpture standing in the middle of the pool, a few neighbors, two robbers, a team of firefighters, Mrs. Pebble who came in a hurry, and a psychic who didn't know where they came from, all these people were wild and carnival, and staged one incredible farce after another from dusk to dawn the next day? Comedy? A satire?

"The Good Soldier" is one of Ford's most important masterpieces. It was created before the First World War and tells the tragedy of "The Good Soldier" Edward Ashburnham, with a complex and tortuous plot. In fact, the novel uses the narrator John Dowell to tell the emotional story between two couples in a seemingly casual tone. Among the four protagonists, three are dead and one is crazy... A large number of disorderly flashbacks are mixed in, and there is also a lot of space left for the readers to imagine and fill in... Ford's concept of "literary impressionism" has been fully reflected in this novel. No wonder some commentators call it "the father of impressionism in British novels." The original title of this novel was "The Saddest Story", and the first sentence at the beginning was: "This is the saddest story I have ever heard." After the outbreak of World War I, Ford changed the title of the novel to the current ironic "The Good Soldier" (The Good Soldier). In 1998, this novel was ranked 30th among the "100 Best English Novels of the 20th Century" by Random House Modern Library. In addition, it has been adapted into a TV series.

"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." This time, Osamu Dazai's two novels are combined into one book. "Flagbearer of the 20th Century" integrates a variety of writing techniques. Songzi's last words in the movie "The Life of the Disliked Matsuko" are from the title of this work. "Girl's Disciple" is an important work of Osamu Dazai in his later years. It delicately shows the inner changes of a girl and won the 4th Kitamura Totsuya Award.

"The Waves" is a novel written by British female writer Virginia Woolf in 1931. After a long period of literary exploration, the author achieved an accurate portrayal and expression of the images in his mind, and used highly symbolic brushstrokes to depict the inner monologues of six characters: Bernard, Neville, Louis, Susan, Jenny and Rhoda from childhood to old age. The author used six parallel streams of consciousness to express the six types of consciousness and the growth experience of the "six eras of man" respectively, expressing different perceptions of time, life and death.

"The Pat Hobby Series" contains a total of 17 short stories, all of which were serialized in "Esquire" magazine. The first article, "Pat Hobby's Christmas Wish," was published in January 1940, and the last article, "Pat Hobby's College Years," was published in May 1941. The author's language is humorous and satirical, and the work is compact and interesting, microscopically recreating the style of Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s.

This book includes sixteen independent short stories. These stories do not have complicated and bizarre plots, nor the climaxes of traditional novels, but only fragments of life and inner monologues interspersed in these fragments. In "Death in the Forest" and "Death of a Brother", which have a heavy color of death, death is no longer the end of life, but a retrospective of the starting point of life; in "She Was There - She Was Taking a Bath" and "Mountain Dweller", people who are squeezed by the living environment and have no chance to breathe can finally see their fate clearly and realize the true meaning of life. The author Sherwood Anderson is one of the first American writers to express the subconscious. To a certain extent, he is a psychological novelist. He was familiar with and learned from Freud's psychoanalytic theory, and was even called "the American Freud" by some critics. Although this book does not analyze the psychology of the characters, readers can interpret the characters' hearts through the detailed descriptions in the book, deeply unearth the hidden and suppressed desires, pain, helplessness and struggles behind these stories, and start a journey of exploration of the characters' inner world.

Kim, an orphan of an Irish soldier, had been wandering on the streets of Lahore since he was a child because both his parents died in poverty, making a living by begging and doing small errands. Sometimes Kim would run errands for a horse dealer who was actually a British intelligence agent. One day, a Tibetan lama came to Lahore, looking for a holy river that could help him escape the cycle of life and death. Lama's persistence moved Kim, so he set out, "If we are destined to find these things, we have to find them..." Kim's life changed accordingly... The novel is set between the second and third Afghan wars and is famous for the author's descriptions of Indian people, culture, and different religions. Some reviewers believe that "this book presents a vivid picture of India, with its numerous populations, religions, superstitions, markets and street life." In 1988, "Kim" ranked 78th among the 100 best English novels of the 20th century ranked by Modern Library. In the 2003 British BBC "Big Read" survey, "Kim" ranked as the "most loved novel".

The protagonist of the story may be the most ill-fated Santa Claus in history. A cruel war is coming, and Santa Claus will be captured alive! How should he get out of this predicament and deliver Christmas gifts to the children? "Although the war is cruel, the novel is warm and touching. Even in the midst of war, the children still have hopes and expectations for Christmas: Evelyn wants dolls, Charlie wants uniforms and small swords, and Bob and Aluan know that their fathers who are in the battlefield cannot come home, but they are still willing to do so. He wishes to help his mother make Christmas gifts for his younger brothers and sisters, and always looks forward to his father's return. What we see in the book is not the pain caused by the war, but love, courage and hope, which glow warmer and brighter in the dark days.

"The Diary of A Provincial Lady" is an autobiographical novel that shows the life of a middle-class housewife living in Devon in the form of a diary. The author comments on the daily life of the family in a humorous tone, writes the trivial details of life in a witty manner, and vividly shows the situation during the two world wars. Once published, the book was loved by readers on both sides of the Atlantic, led to a series of sequels, and is still widely praised today. The British "Guardian" also listed it as one of the 1,000 books you must read before you die.

This book contains some of Fitzgerald's letters. Most of these letters are about his literary activities and literary interests. The first part is his letters to his friends, and the second part is his letters to his daughter. F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), American novelist. He tried his hand at writing screenplays when he was young. In 1920, he published the novel "Heaven on Earth", which was very popular and made him famous and wealthy. After the novel was published he married Zelda. After getting married, he lived in Paris with his wife and met many American writers such as Anderson and Hemingway. During this period he also wrote many short stories. In 1925, "The Great Gatsby" came out, establishing his position in the history of modern American literature. He became the spokesperson of the "Jazz Age" in the 1920s and one of the representative writers of the "Lost Generation".

A huge caravan was walking in the vast desert. Due to the intense heat during the day, caravans usually rest in the afternoon and set out again at night when the sky is full of stars. In order to kill the hot and boring afternoon, a stranger who joined the caravan halfway suggested that each merchant tell a story...

"Dear Enemy" is the sequel to "Daddy-Long-Legs". This is also an epistolary novel, but the protagonist is replaced by Judy's college classmate and best friend-Sally. After Judy married "Daddy Long Legs" Jervis, the two lived a happy and sweet life. Judy wanted to improve the John Greer Orphanage where she once lived. When they saw that the optimistic Sally was still living a willful and muddled life, with "no progress" in their words, the couple decided to invite Sally to be the director of the John Greer Orphanage. Sally was reluctant at first, but after Judy's repeated persuasion and politician Gordon's cynicism (Sally believed that the latter had a greater driving force), this red-haired Irish descendant came to the orphanage resolutely...

This is a coming-of-age story that has been best-selling for centuries and is a classic representative of Indiana literature. The story takes place in the Limbolost Wetland in Indiana, USA. Due to oil mining and farmland irrigation, the area of ​​​​wetlands in this area has been drastically reduced. A girl who has just entered high school is ignored by her mother and teased by her classmates, making it almost difficult to complete her studies. However, relying on her own efforts, she found hope in the beautiful nature and gained friendship and love. This book has been adapted into film and television works many times, and it remains timeless today and is suitable for readers of all ages.

After the Battle of Britain, wounded air force soldiers were sent to a small town in Sussex, England for medical treatment. In this town, these pilots who were "smashed, burned, and boiled" in the war jokingly called themselves McIndore's "guinea pigs", which also became a special code name. The author Liz Boesky grew up in this small town in southern England. However, for her at a young age, those horribly disfigured faces became an indelible shadow in her childhood memories. Over sixty years old, Liz returned to her long-lost hometown and tried to reconcile with the memories of that year. As a senior reporter, Liz began to look for surviving Air Force casualties - those "guinea pigs" who were still alive, as well as some nurses who had cared for these wounded. Nurses have played such an important role in enabling the wounded to regain their confidence and return to society. However, there are many unknown stories behind them, and these stories have also affected many people's subsequent lives.

In 1917, Thorne Smith followed his father's will and joined the U. S. Navy as a member. In 1918, he published a book based on the daily life of the navy, which was very popular. The protagonist of the novel, Oswald, narrates the daily life of sailors in the form of a diary. The language is humorous and the jokes come out of his mouth, which is really hilarious. This is a work written during the First World War. It is a story about conscription and the army, but there is no fire or smoke. A group of young recruits, looking forward to the unknown new world, boarded the ship of the U. S. Navy, and with their ambitions to travel all over the world, they started their own ridiculous military careers. Pelham ushered in the most troublesome recruit kid...

What is it like to be a haiku poet? Kyoko Takahama is a student of Japanese haiku master Masaoka Shiki and a famous haiku poet. This novel describes the life of a haiku poet (haiku poet). It is said that the protagonist of the novel has the shadow of Masaoka Shiki. Like every young man with a longing for literature, Ji and Sanzo crossed the Seto Inland Sea from their hometown to Kyoto, and then from Kyoto to Tokyo, thinking that they had broken into a free world for them to roam, a world of flowers. Unexpectedly, both myself and the people I have met and interacted with through haiku are all struggling in the floating world, experiencing all kinds of tastes, and finally compromising with reality or being forced to a dead end. Sanzang is the protagonist of the novel, and at certain moments, he is also a bystander. We will follow his footsteps and go deep into the life at the bottom of Japanese society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; follow his vision and read all about the world. However, the novel itself does not present fierce conflicts and confrontations. The writing style of the work is soothing, the story is relaxed and relaxed, and the narrative rhythm is always maintained between the lines. Sanzang's novel that runs through the story but was never written may be the work we open.

This political fantasy novel was written in 1907. Through the perspective of a wealthy lady who joined the revolution, the author fictionalized the changes in social development at that time and accurately predicted the rise of the capitalist centralized system. Although the book was published 100 years ago, it still has a warning and thought-provoking effect on today's society.

The first part of the trilogy, "Sunset Song" (1932), is set in the countryside. It starts from the teenage protagonist Chris and records her growth. Here, the novel reflects the hardships of rural life in Scotland and the disintegration of the small-scale peasant economy through Chrissy's experience of growing up from childhood, getting married and having children, and then becoming a widower and an orphan and a widowed mother. The symbolic meaning of the novel is obvious: the death of Chrissy's husband hints at the end of the small-scale peasant economic model. In addition to organically combining Chrissy's personal growth experience with the general background of historical changes, it is also worth pointing out her contribution to the coming-of-age novel. In this work, Gibbon describes Chris's growth process from a girl to a wife and mother to a widowed mother, which was a very rare thing for a male writer at the time. It can be said that Gibbon's work breaks through the clichés of traditional European coming-of-age novels and focuses on a female character from the bottom, allowing readers to appreciate a clear and credible female consciousness and worldview.

This book tells the story of the protagonist Xiao Longbao who experienced ups and downs in his growth and finally achieved success in life and career. The novel spans a long time and the relationships between the characters are complex. The author reflects the process of a big era through the description of small characters, which makes reading a sense of vicissitudes of life and inspiring. At the same time, the novel has strong storytelling and simple language, which can give people a positive force.

"I Am a Cat" is a famous work by Japan's "national master" Natsume Soseki, and is known as "a monument to Japanese critical realism literature." The author uses cat language to expose the nature of human money worship and egoism, and criticizes the society that worships money and the social habits of worshiping foreign things.

"Camel Xiangzi" tells the story of Xiangzi, an uneducated, young and powerful rickshaw driver from the countryside of Peking, who experienced ups and downs in his life. The unique Beijing-style spoken language vividly embodies ordinary city life and folk customs, making the characters in the novel more fitting. A display of true vernacular art.

The story takes place in a small town in the southern United States, where there is an old southern judge Fox Crane and his grandson Jester, as well as a young black boy Sherman with a pair of blue eyes, and a pharmacist suffering from leukemia, Mr. Malone. Jester wants to find the truth behind his father's suicide, while Sherman wants to find his mother. In less than a year, the lives and fates of several characters are intertwined. Their intersection is not because they like each other, but just because of excessive loneliness.

This is a story of extreme loneliness. The protagonists of the story are two mutes-Singer and Antonapoulos. Although they cannot speak, they have the same mind and they depend on each other in the small town. Until one day Antonapoulos was sent to a mental hospital due to alcoholism and overeating, and Singer began a lonely journey. Being good at listening, he became a window for others to vent their loneliness, but Singer's own loneliness was always unknown. Everyone is looking for an exit from loneliness, but no one can escape the fate of loneliness, not even love.

The protagonists in "O. Henry's Short Stories Collection" are mostly small people such as clerks, policemen, vagrants and poor artists, but at the same time they are loving couples, trustworthy friends, and civilian heroes who sacrifice themselves for others. The novel's conception is exquisite and clever, the plot is relaxed and relaxed, the ending is often unexpected, the overall style is optimistic and humorous, and the writing is full of wit. His story shows ironic compassion, unique humor and an ending that is absolutely unguessable until the last second, giving you an amazing reading experience. They depict a vast world, from the streets of his beloved New York to exotic locales south of the border.

Maugham changed the prejudice against women in his previous works and recalled the life of a beautiful woman as an admirer, embellished with many anecdotes from the literary and artistic circles. He draws materials from reality, blends fiction with fact, and uses the narrator Ashenden to narrate his early interactions with the famous writer Driffield and his ex-wife Rosie. This past event is the biographical subject that another popular novelist Keir wants to explore, and the story begins. Deep in Ashenden's memory, we find that the charming Rosie, although romantic and merciless by nature, is still kind, frank and lovely...

"Animal Farm" is one of Orwell's outstanding works. It is a dystopian political allegory that penetrates the heart. A group of animals on the farm successfully carried out a "revolution", driving their exploitative human masters out of the farm and establishing an equal animal society. However, the animal leaders, those smart pigs, usurped the fruits of the revolution and became more dictatorial and totalitarian rulers than their human counterparts.

The latest work of Tobin, the author of "Brooklyn" and "The Master", rewrites the family tragedy of Agamemnon from a modern perspective, an ancient Greek version of "House of Cards". "I have become familiar with the smell of death." A few years after King Agamemnon of Mycenae led the Greek coalition to attack Troy, his wife Clytemnestra began to tell her story. At this time, Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus ruled Mycenae, and the two planned to assassinate Agamemnon on the occasion of his triumph. Clytemnestra, who was hated and cursed by the gods, revealed the family tragedy that led to this bloody assassination: Three years ago, in order to please the gods and bless her victory in the Trojan expedition, Agamemnon tricked her eldest daughter Iphigenia into the military camp and killed her on the pretext of organizing a wedding. Clytemnestra turned Aegisthus, the hostage in the dungeon, into his bedfellow and accomplice; when Agamemnon returned, the captive Trojan princess Cassandra had also become his lover; in the end, Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon to avenge her daughter. In his latest novel "The Famous Family", Colm Tóibín retells the ancient Greek classic story of the death of Agamemnon in modern language, giving new life to Clytemnestra, the famous evil woman in Greek mythology, making us not only understand her desire for revenge, but even sympathize with her. Tobin brilliantly reveals her love, desire and pain. This is the story of Clytemnestra, the story of her son Orestes who later killed her, and the story of her second daughter Electra who witnessed it all.

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This book is the first part of the "Pingle Town Trilogy" that Yan Ge is writing. The author reconstructs the youthful confusion of a generation from the perspective of Yuan Qingshan, a girl who cannot control her body growth. The novel contains both positive and negative stories. On the front, what we see are the children who grow up and curse loudly in dialect. In the dusty plain town of Pingle, they form gangs, commit petty crimes, fight, fall in love, and want to leave but are unable to leave in the end. While telling the tragedy of all living beings on the four streets of east, west, north and south, it also depicts the maze of pain at the bottom of the human heart that only women can understand. At the back of the novel, there is another story that is not easily noticed, about ancient gods, relics of gods, mutated bodies, a girl who turned into a cuckoo bird, and a fisherman who became a catfish, which adds a mixed and lonely atmosphere to the work. With this book, Yan Ge was selected as one of the "Top 20 Future Writers" by People's Literature magazine.

This book is the second part of the "Pingle Town Trilogy" that Yan Ge is writing. The protagonist Duan Yixing (i. E. The narrator "I") has never appeared in the novel, nor has he promoted the progress of the story. In the innocent voice of this crazy daughter, the author tells the story of how the family, especially her father, Xue Shengqiang, director of the Chunjuan Douban Factory in Pingle Town, prepared for her grandma's 80th birthday party. Family members who are far apart return to town, stirring up old grudges and bittersweet memories. As the birthday party approaches, old and new secrets surface, exploding like timely bombs. Funny, vivid, wanton, and pungent, the past and present are intertwined without leaving a trace under the overlapping montages, like a lively genre painting of a small town in Western Sichuan, or a verbal adventure that breaks into the Sichuan dialect.

In a battle, his comrades sacrificed their lives to rescue Larry, a young American pilot. Larry began to think about the meaning of life. Since there is truth, goodness and beauty in the world, why are there still wars and misfortunes? He felt extremely confused and bewildered about this. After the war, Larry returned to his hometown. There was a craze in the United States to create a "magnificent and prosperous era," but he found it difficult to stay a part of it. In order to get answers to the lingering doubts in his heart, he gave up the opportunity to study and find a job, left his fiancée behind and came to Paris, embarking on a long journey of exploring the meaning of life wholeheartedly. Finally, I found a spiritual way out in Indian spiritual philosophy: "a peaceful life with compassion, calmness and selflessness, gratitude and selflessness, and asceticism and self-denial." He returned to China and became a taxi driver, living in seclusion in the city as the saying goes.

In the 1990s, the fragments of life in the art and literary circles may seem superficial, but they are the real communication deep in the heart, as well as thoughts on religion, philosophy, etc. The unsigned letter, the unknown letter writer, the intertwined and ambiguous relationship surrounding a mysterious woman named Manda... Wu Liang used an incredible and enigmatic writing gesture to construct a real fragmented building, but when the building was completed, he revealed a mystery - maybe all this did not exist at all. Wu Liang, who wrote "Ma Yuan's Narrative Trap", also played a trick of existence and nothingness in the novel. This time, it is undoubtedly Wu Liang's own narrative trap.

This book includes two novellas: "White Swimsuit" and "Into the Style". "White Swimsuit": From the movie "Old Paoer", I recall the girl Ruan Xinji who wore a white swimsuit. When the swimsuit enters the water, it is instantly transparent, and everyone's youthful body can be seen at a glance. Peng Hui stood up to protect the beauty, causing a group fight and injuring dozens of people. I went swimming with the girl again, but found that the white swimsuit was tightly covered and nothing could be seen. Transparent or opaque, that is the question. To dream or to wake up is also a question. At the age of eighteen, everything is a problem. "Into the Type": Peking snitch Ye Qilang, the father of young Ye Hongmin, was shot dead by the police. Hong Min and his younger brother Hong Wang were separated. Hongmin failed to join the martial arts and went south to Guangzhou to make a living. In order to clear up the stigma of being a "Queen of Thieves", I had no choice but to become a thief again. I met all kinds of people in the world, got into various entanglements, and gradually became enlightened. In the end, when the brothers reunite, they say goodbye forever, and a story begins again.

"The Stranger" is Camus' famous work, a masterpiece of existential literature, and a representative work of absurd novels. The novel tells the story of an ordinary young employee who lives numbly in aimless inertia all day long. One day he went to the beach for vacation, got involved in a conflict, and committed a murder. Because "he did not shed tears at his mother's funeral", he was sentenced to death by the court in the name of "the French people". The novel elaborates on an important proposition of existentialism: the absurdity and strangeness of human society lead to individual despair and emptiness.

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"The Blade" is Maugham's classic philosophical work. Maugham condensed his thoughts on the world and life into this work. Riley served in the Air Force during World War I and flew high in the vast sky. He wanted "power and honor far beyond the world." The death of his comrade made him realize the helplessness and insurmountability of life. After being discharged from the army, Riley refused to go to college, get married, or find a job. He left his relatives and friends behind and traveled to Europe. Finally, he went to India, where he was inspired by a Ganesha master's ashram and realized the true meaning of life. In the end, Riley chose to disappear among all living things.

"The Moon and Sixpence" is a masterpiece from Maugham's heyday, based on the life of the French post-Impressionist painter Gauguin. The protagonist was originally a securities broker. After reaching middle age, he suddenly responded to the call of his heart and gave up everything to live with the indigenous people in Tahiti in the South Pacific. After gaining inspiration, he created many artistic masterpieces. Maugham deeply explored the contradictions and interactions between life and art in his novels, and expressed his thoughts on ideals and reality.

"Camel Xiangzi" is Lao She's masterpiece. It uses the whereabouts of Xiangzi, a rickshaw driver in Peiping, as a clue, the life of Beijing citizens in the late 1920s as the background, and the rough and tragic life experience of rickshaw driver Xiangzi as the main plot. It profoundly reveals the oppression of the living conditions of the ordinary people in an era, expresses the author's deep sympathy for the working people, and shows the picture of the poor citizens at the bottom who actively strive to change their destiny, but encounter obstacles everywhere.

"Eating" is the winning work of Japan's 146th Akutagawa Prize. Touma Shinogaki is an ordinary boy. A long time ago, his mother Renzi chose to run away from home because she could not bear the violence of her father. As he grew up, Touma vowed never to become a man like his father. Yuanma has a childhood sweetheart girlfriend, Qianzhong. In the process of getting along with Qianzhong, Yuanma was surprised to find that the genes from his father were hidden deep in his body and were about to move... Where should this family go? This book also includes the short story "Fish in the Tertiary Formation".

Dad always warned Renee that the outside world was dangerous, but in fact her home was the most dangerous. In Alaska in 1974, the brightest and darkest humanity thrived in the long night. Alaska is very big, and there are many places to hide little things like love: the friendship between neighbors, the deep love between mother and daughter, the innocent love of youth and the twisted and possibly fatal love of lovers. This elusive and lonely place reveals swirls and secrets that have been hidden for years. After arriving in Alaska, 14-year-old Renee suddenly saw the true appearance of the world around her and understood the truth that her parents had been hiding. The world is too vast and we all have to face too many problems alone. We use love to keep the world out, but the world is coming menacingly.

"Swan Totem" is a companion piece to "Wolf Totem". Writer Jiang Rong spent 16 years and worked hard to create this blockbuster new work. In addition to the pursuit of courage and freedom, another piece of the puzzle of life full of love and beauty is presented. The beauty of the Mongolian grasslands is brought by the swans returning north in early spring. The sheep are paddling on the green waves, and the shepherds are grazing under the stars. Over the lake, a large group of swans danced softly, like dazzling white clouds under the sun. In this land where swans live, between tribes and merchants, life and love have never been so full of vitality, as if the scorching sun is kissing the earth, straightforward, strong and pure. A pursuit and protection that began with hopelessness led to a legend under a snowstorm that had never happened in a century. Like a simple and rich primitive pastoral song, you can see the thousand-year changes of the grassland in one spring and one winter.

This book is a collection of short stories. It is a collection of fourteen fictional stories set by the writer Lu Yiping with the Pamir Plateau as the background. It is full of pastoral atmosphere. The vast grasslands, snow-capped mountains, rivers and lakes of Xinjiang, the pure and beautiful Tajik girls, poignant love stories, the herdsmen's incomparable attachment to the grassland, etc., Make people's hearts beat when reading them. The author depicts a Xinjiang full of pastoral atmosphere, where there are beautiful scenery, kind and simple people, and harsh natural environment. Most of the stories described are stories from the 1990s, when people and nature seemed to be unpolluted, presenting an ideal land. The military and civilian family is a special book that tells special stories in a special environment.

This is a full-length novel based on a true story, which depicts the story of an organ transplant group who are terminally ill but still live optimistically. Not only did they fight against the disease and win a "happy" afterlife, but with the help of the government, medical staff and caring people in society, they also established a "home for transplant friends" to help more "transplant recipients." The writing of this book is simple and the content is tear-jerking, conveying the perseverance and power of life. The author truly reproduces the alternative life of the organ transplant community; the simple writing style writes tear-jerking stories, and the melancholy soul imprints the painful life.

Harrell is an upright writer who despises the lifestyle of modern society. He often stays at home and is extremely lonely. He falls into a schizophrenic situation. One day, he accidentally read a short book "Review of Steppenwolf". He woke up from a dream and thought that he was a Steppenwolf with both "human nature" and "wolf nature". Later, he was invited to a party and found that the attendees all had narrow nationalist views, and his anti-war remarks were reprimanded, which made him feel very lonely. Later, he met the bar girl Hermina and gained sensual pleasure. Jinghe introduced him to the musician Pablo and the girl Maria. He forgot all his troubles and worries in music and sensory enjoyment. But when he saw Hermina getting close to Pablo, he became "wolfish" and killed Hermina out of jealousy. The novel is rich in fantasy color and profound symbolic meaning, and is considered to have a "surrealist" style. Thomas Mann called it "the German Ulysses".