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"The Woman of No Importance" (1892) is one of Wilde's dramatic works in the "Complete Chinese Translation Classics by Xu Yuanchong". The plot tells the story of a young man named Gerald Yarbrough who was lucky enough to be favored by Lord Illingworth and wanted to use him as his secretary and support him. Gerald's mother, Mrs. Yarbrough, came to see Lord Illingworth to express her gratitude. When they met, they discovered that they were "old friends." It turns out that she was a lover with the Lord when she was young, but was abandoned after becoming pregnant. Gerald was actually the illegitimate son of Lord Illinwall. Mrs. Yarbrough had been humiliated and humiliated for her "mistakes" in her youth for half her life, and she had to bear a heavy moral cross. However, Lord Illingworth was not ashamed of what he had done, and regarded Mrs. Yarbrough as an "insignificant woman."

"Antony and Cleopatra" (also translated as "Antony and Cleopatra") is one of the "Complete Chinese Translation Classics by Xu Yuanchong" and one of Shakespeare's famous tragedies. The plot tells the story of Antony, one of the three chiefs of Rome, who is obsessed with the beauty of Cleopatra and almost forgets national affairs. Later, Rome suffered from the rebellion of Thedas Pompeii, the invasion of pirates, the invasion of Parthians from the east, and the death of Antony's wife. Antony regained his strength, returned to Rome, and married Octavian's sister to consolidate political relations. When the wheel subsided, Antony returned to Clupa. Later, a confrontation between Antony and Octavian was formed in Rome. During the sea battle between the two, Antony escaped after Clupa's ship, resulting in the defeat. Antony committed suicide in grief, and Clupa also committed suicide.

"Romeo and Juliet" is one of the "Complete Chinese Translation Classics by Xu Yuanchong" and is also one of Shakespeare's famous tragedies. The story told is familiar to the majority of readers: the plot tells the story of Juliet, the daughter of the Kapler family, an Italian aristocratic family, and Montague, who have been enemies for generations. The son Romeo fell in love at first sight, fell in love persistently, and had a secret union. However, due to the conflict and mutual killing between the two families, Romeo was exiled. With the help of the priest, Juliet took medicine and faked her death to escape the marriage arranged by her father, and finally both died in love.

"The Tempest" (also translated as "The Tempest") is one of the "Complete Chinese Translation Classics of Xu Yuanchong" and one of Shakespeare's masterpieces. The plot tells the story of Duke Probe of Milan, whose title was usurped by his younger brother Antonius. He fled to a desert island with his infant daughter Miranda and relied on magic to become the owner of the island. Later, he created a storm and brought the ships of the nearby King of Naples, Prince Ferdinand and accompanying Antonius to the desert island. He also used magic to facilitate the marriage between the prince and Miranda. The ending is that Probet restored his title, forgave his enemies, and returned home.

"Twelfth Night" is one of the "Complete Chinese Translation Classics by Xu Yuanchong" and one of Shakespeare's famous comedies. Plot: Sebadian and Weihenna, twin brothers and sisters, were unfortunately killed during a sea voyage. They each escaped by chance and lived in Ilia. Weihenna disguises herself as a man and works as a page for Duke Orsino. She secretly loves the Duke, but the Duke loves a Countess Olivia. But Olivia didn't love him. Instead, she fell in love with Weihenna, who wooed her on the Duke's behalf. After some interesting twists and turns, Weihenna and Orsino, Olivia and Sebadian both formed a happy marriage. Although Olivia's original love was not Sebadian, his face was exactly the same as Weihena's, which fulfilled her wish.

"Love Without Mercy" (also translated as "Love in vain") is one of the "Complete Chinese Translation Classics of Xu Yuanchong" and one of Shakespeare's masterpieces. The plot tells the story of the four kings and ministers of the Nava Kingdom who vowed to be pure in desire, reject all material enjoyment, stay away from women, and concentrate on studying for three years. But when the beautiful French princess and her maids came to the court, they forgot all about their vows and rushed to woo them. But because they lacked real feelings, the French princess scolded them and left them. In this play, Shakespeare satirizes the court aristocrats' views on love and rhetoric.

"The grape season will be late, but Nordon is never absent." The first work of Belgian writer Amélie Nordon. Nobel Prize winner Pretexta Tasch had less than two months to live, and reporters were swarmed by exclusive reports before her death. "You haven't read my book at all." Tasch sneered at every reporter who came to interview. Tasch hated metaphors and never minced words. Tasch has an unknown secret. He has been frantically leaving secret clues in his works for many years, but no one has discovered it. He enjoyed the pleasure of fooling the world, but deep down he was always waiting for the secret to be discovered.

"The Crab Walk" is the late masterpiece of German writer Günter Grass. The novel is based on real history: In 1945, the German cruise ship "Gustloff" carrying more than 10,000 refugees and soldiers was sunk by the Soviet army, killing nearly 10,000 people, including about 4,000 children. The novel reveals the serious disasters brought by the war initiators to the people of the country. Tula, a pregnant woman on the ship, was rescued, and her son Paul was born on the night of the disaster. Mother and son fled to Germany. The elderly Tula told his grandson Conrad about the shipwreck and other experiences. Conrad developed extreme ideas, founded a neo-Nazi website, advocated racial hatred, and shot and killed netizens who pretended to be Jewish youths. The work explores the tragedy caused by the Nazis and the war, and analyzes the underlying reasons for the resurgence of right-wing racist ideas in Germany.

"Money" is the nineteenth novel in the French writer Zola's masterpiece "The Rougon-Macquart Family". Published in 1892, it occupies an important position in Zola's entire creation due to the significance of its subject matter and the success of its artistic depiction. It uses vivid and rich images to express a series of major social phenomena in the early days of modern capitalism: new problems in the financial market, the role of capital, social speculative psychology, and the human tragedies and comedies that occurred around these. "Money" expresses the role of money in social life from a sociological perspective, highlighting a special form of activity and role of money capital in social life under capitalism. That is, once money capital is formed, it will inevitably turn into financial speculation, and the exchanges that carry out such speculative activities have become the focus of "Money".

It includes Gogol's representative works, the novels "Taras Bulba", "Nevsky Prospekt", "Portrait", "The Overcoat" and the drama "The Imperial Envoy". Gogol uses ordinary daily life as the theme to describe the misfortunes of small people, which is permeated by the author's exposure and criticism of the social roots that cause the tragedies of small people. "The Imperial Envoy" is the representative work of the Russian satirist Gogol, which was published in 1836. The story describes a playboy named Khlestakov who lost everything in a bet and was at a loss. He was passing through a city in another province from Petersburg and was mistaken for an "imperial envoy". This caused panic among the local officials and made many jokes.

"Pride and Prejudice" describes the love and marriage of middle-class men and women. The novel uses comedy techniques to express serious criticism of life and explores the heroine's psychological process of self-discovery from love to marriage. The marriage between the heroine and Darcy is a happy marriage that the author praises as "setting an example for all lovers in the world".

"Stories of Petersburg" is a series of seven works written by Gogol in the 1830s and 1840s. It is named because the stories all take place in Petersburg. Another main line of this series of works is that the protagonists of the stories are all minor characters. This collection of novels contains seven works: "Nevsky Prospekt", "The Nose", "Portrait", "Coat", "Carriage", "Diary of a Madman" and "Rome", which express the writer's more mature worldview and literary outlook. Chinese readers are more familiar with "The Jacket" and "Diary of a Madman". Reading under the two major theme frameworks of Petersburg and Little People is more helpful in grasping the writer's view of literary creation. Gogol's three novels form a set of readings, which is conducive to a centralized grasp of Gogol's literary concepts and creative characteristics.

This book contains all of Faulkner's mature articles, speeches, book reviews, prefaces, and letters intended for publication, many of which reflect his increased sense of responsibility as a public figure after winning the Nobel Prize. From them, we can get a glimpse of all aspects of Faulkner as an artist and as a human being. These pages show us what this intensely passionate, extraordinarily complex, and intensely private writer was willing to reveal to the public during the last forty years of his career, while also allowing us to gain a closer understanding of both his person and his work.

"The Master and Margarita" is a rare Russian novel with magical and grotesque colors. It was published twenty-five years after the author's death. The ingenious conception, bizarre plot, profound philosophy and perfect art form have attracted generations of readers. It is known in the West and Russia as "the peak of satire literature, fantasy literature and rigorous realism literature". Two narrative levels unfold alternately in "The Master and Marguerite". One is the level where reality and fantasy blend; the other is the level where history and legend blend. The novel describes the trial and execution of Joshua by Pilate, the Jewish governor of the Roman Empire.

"Quiet Don" is an outstanding work of socialist realism. The novel is set between World War I and the Soviet Civil War in 1922. It describes the turbulent life of the Cossacks in the Don River region during these ten years and reflects the customs, social changes and major historical events in this region. The protagonist Gregory has become a very dazzling figure in the gallery of world literary figures because of his bumpy and complicated experiences.

Lingkong was shot by a faceless man in black, and when he woke up, he found himself lying on a hospital bed in a different world! "I'm... Jack Bond? What the hell? I've become a relative of Zero Zero Seven? "Jack Bond\

"Mirgrad", first published in 1835, is Gogol's second anthology of novels and the sequel to "Nights in the Countryside". This novel collective includes four works in total: "Old-Style Landlord", "Taras Bulba", "Vi" and "The Story of the Quarrel between Ivan Ivanovich and Ivan Nikiforovich". These works are full of strong folklore flavor, describing the charming scenery and vivid life of Ukraine, and discovering truths that can shock the soul in daily life. Gogol's three novels form a set of readings, which is conducive to a centralized grasp of Gogol's literary concepts and creative characteristics.

First published in 1829, "Dykonka Nights" is Gogol's first anthology of novels and the first collection of novels that established the writer's position in the history of Russian literature. It includes eight works: "Saudinsky Market", "St. John's Eve", "May Night", "The Lost Credentials", "Christmas Eve", "Terrible Revenge", "Ivan Fedorovich Shpanka and His Aunt" and "The Devil's Land". Most of these works are based on Ukrainian folklore, reflecting the people's lives and historical events in Ukraine, and revealing the thematic features and descriptive features that will appear in "Dead Souls" in the future. Gogol's three novels form a set of readings, which is conducive to a centralized grasp of Gogol's literary concepts and creative characteristics.

The protagonist Segawa Umatsu is an elementary school teacher with a Burakumin background. In order not to be abandoned by society, he concealed his origin. Uchimatsu has progressive ideas, hates evil forces, sympathizes with the weak, and worships Inoko Rentaro, a thinker who was also a tribesman. He was inspired by Rentaro's writings and wanted to challenge society and bravely reveal his identity, but he was afraid of this ruthless society. As a result, I feel conflicted and full of annoyance and distress. His progressive tendencies and popularity among students aroused the suspicion and hatred of the principal, who attempted to squeeze Chou Song out using insidious means. After Rentaro was killed by a political enemy, Usomatsu made up his mind to reveal his origins and asked the students to forgive him for concealing his behavior. Although he broke the rules, he was not accepted by the society at that time. With the encouragement and comfort of his lover Shiho, Usomatsu is determined to start a new life in North America...

This book is a complete translation of "Little Women" and consists of the first and second parts of "Little Women". The original "Little Women" published by our company only contained the content of the first part. However, most books of the same name on the market are a combined version of the first and second parts, and when the book was adapted into a movie, the content of both parts was also used. It should be said that "Little Women" composed of two parts is the complete version. Therefore, the original translator is now requested to revise the content of the first part, newly translate the content of the second part, and publish a new full translation. The first part of "Little Women" tells the story of the four March sisters. After its publication, it was well received by readers and critics and is called one of the best family novels in the United States.

A Room of One's Own: Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown and Others is based on two lectures. On October 20 and 26, 1928, Woolf came to the University of Cambridge twice from London, delivering lectures on the topic of women and novels at Newnham Women's College and Gorting Women's College respectively. Afterwards, in March 1929, she combined the two speeches into one article, entitled "Women and Novel", and published it in the American magazine "Forum". Later, she greatly revised and expanded "Women and Novel" and wrote the book "Room".

"The Tin Drum" is a masterpiece of novels by German writer and Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass, and one of the "Danzig Trilogy". The protagonist Oscar's father is German, and his maternal grandmother is the Kashubian, an ancient resident of the Danzig area. When Oscar was three years old, he discovered that his mother was having an affair with his cousin and decided not to grow taller. From his perspective, society and the people around him are weird and crazy. He beats the tin drum and uses his superpower of singing about broken glass to vent his indignation against the deformed society. Later, the girl Maria fell in love with him. After becoming pregnant, she married her father and gave birth to Oscar's son Kurt. Oscar accompanied the dwarf acrobatic troupe to visit the German soldiers. Three years later, the Soviet army captured Danzig, and his father, a Nazi, was shot dead... The novel narrates the dark history of Germany with black humor and absurd writing.

The work "Collected Works of Woolf: Voyages" took nearly nine years from conception to final publication, and went through several revisions. It was finally published in the UK for the first time in March 1915, and received a very good response at that time. In April of that year, the "Observer" published an article congratulating Woolf and making the following evaluation of the novel: "... The humor, irony, and occasionally spicy writing and creative talent shown in the book are impressive..."

John Keats (1795-1821) was born in London in the late 18th century. He was one of the outstanding English poetry writers and a major member of the Romantic School. Keats loved literature since he was a child. Due to his poor family situation, he left school to study medicine when he was less than 16 years old. In 1816, he met famous poets such as Lee Hunter and Shelley and was influenced by them. In November, he abandoned medicine to pursue literature, embarked on the path of poetry creation, and finally became a dazzling star in the British literary world at that time. Keats was very talented, and he was famous for his work with Shelley. He is good at using descriptive techniques to create poems, perfectly combining various emotions with nature, and looking for the shadow of creation from life. His poems can bring people an immersive feeling. He was only 25 years old when he died, but the poems he left behind are well-known in the world. His poems are considered to perfectly embody the characteristics of Western Romantic poetry. Keats is praised as an outstanding representative of the European Romantic movement. Mr. Tu An's translation was filled with his endless appreciation and love for Keats. In 2001, he won the Translation Rainbow Award of the third "Lu Xun Literary Award".

"The Waves" is a novel written by British female writer Virginia Woolf in 1931. The author uses a very hazy and symbolic brushwork to describe the inner monologues of six characters: Bernard, Neville, Louise, Susan, Jenny and Rhoda from childhood to twilight. The six parallel streams of consciousness respectively express the six types of consciousness and the growth and experience of the "six eras of human beings".

"The Years" is Woolf's eighth novel and her penultimate novel. In fact, she committed suicide by drowning before she had finished revising her last novel, Intermission. Therefore, "The Years", a work that she repeatedly revised, has an extraordinary status in her novel creation; it not only reflects Woolf's later maturity in novel concepts, but also one of her successful practices of continuous innovation and breakthrough in novel writing.

"Main Street" is the representative work of Nobel Prize winner Sinclair Lewis. The novel is set in a small town in the United States before and after World War I. It describes Carol, an urban female intellectual, who marries into a small town and becomes the wife of a country doctor. At first she was full of enthusiasm and tried to "transform" this small town bound by traditional conservative forces, but she encountered huge resistance. Her thoughts were so incompatible with the reality of the town that she was forced to leave the town and go to Washington to find a job, but in the end she had to return to the town and continue to face the old traditional forces that she could not change. This book is highly satirical and provides an in-depth discussion of social issues in the United States.

The "Pastoral Trilogy" contains three pastoral novels by the 19th-century French romantic novelist George Sand: "The Enchanted Marsh," "Little Fadette" and "The Outcast François." "The Enchanted Marsh" is the first pastoral novel written by George Sand when he secluded himself in his own manor in Nohant. It tells the story of farmer Germain and his neighbor little Marie walking together and falling in love with each other. This group of pastoral works based on rural life depicts simple and peaceful pastoral scenery, and eulogizes the innocent love between young men and women that transcends social class and the gap between rich and poor. With its bright and cheerful atmosphere, innocent and simple style, and the consistent awareness of social equality, it has won the love of many readers.

The creation of short stories and short stories runs through Sienkiewicz's entire literary career. "Selected Novels and Novels of Sienkiewicz" selects more than ten short stories and short stories from the more than sixty short stories he wrote throughout his life. They all take real life as the main content and are full of strong emotional color. These works are not only an important part of Sienkiewicz's creations, but also treasures in world literature. They are widely circulated in countries around the world and are loved by readers. "Yanko the Musical" and "Angel" reflect the tragic fate of Polish rural children, and the former was selected into Chinese textbooks. "Charcoal Sketch" and "Memories of a Tutor" reflect the darkness of Tsarist Russia's rule at that time and the tragic fate of the people. "The Lighthouse Keeper" tells the story of Polish exiles and was introduced to the country by Lu Xun in the early 20th century.

"Dream" is the posthumous work of Zweig's novel. The heroine Christina is a female clerk from a poor family. The vacation opportunity provided by her wealthy relatives caused her unchanging life to undergo a "change". This change was actually only "short-lived" and "dream-like." After this short-lived, dream-like change came to an abrupt end, the heroine's real life did not change at all. It was still the hopeless, poor, and monotonous life that she could not get rid of no matter how hard she tried. This was the heroine's fate, which made her resentful, suffocated, and despairing. She complained repeatedly in her heart about this, but in the end she stopped complaining and decided to use real actions to change this fate without hesitation.

This book is a carefully compiled collection of Naoya Shiga's short story masterpieces, including seventeen immortal masterpieces from different periods of his creative career, including "In Kinosaki", "Walking to the Net", "Van's Crime", "Seibei and the Gourd", "The God of the Apprentice", "Grey Moon", etc., Which comprehensively demonstrates the style of his short story creation.

"The Novelist's Holiday" is an essay and commentary written by Mishima Yukio during his creative heyday. In this book, Mishima examines many issues such as contemporary civilization, society, literature, and art with rich and profound sensibility. He dived alone into the complex and ever-changing jungle of modern civilization. With his gorgeous and bold writing style and playful and profound writing style, he discussed the origins of literature and art from multiple angles and pointed pointedly at the ills of the times. This book is the starting point of Mishima's philosophical thinking. It comprehensively displays Mishima's literary outlook, artistic outlook, and values. It is the essence of Mishima's thoughts.

This book contains 15 masterpieces of ghost stories by the Japanese ghost story master Tanaka Kontaro. Kontaro Tanaka is an important figure in Japanese ghost story literature. He spent his whole life and energy to extensively collect ghost stories, strange stories and folklore that were scorned at the time. After his processing and creation, these stories have become classics and have been passed down to this day, influencing many ghost story writers in later generations. Among the ghost stories collected in this book, there are both heartwarming stories of ghosts repaying kindness, and scary moments of revenge by evil ghosts; there are both mysterious and weird anecdotes, and funny anecdotes about monsters. Various strange stories present Japan's unique ghost culture before your eyes.

If we could start our lives over again, we would have to do more than just make up for our regrets. Because for the reborn, destiny is not a game of left or right, but a Roman road leading to success. The newspaper tycoon returns strongly and restarts 1999. He stands at the turning point of destiny and forges ahead bravely - he is the standard bearer of guidance, the explorer of the truth, the observer of society, and the watchman of the people. He is the uncrowned king of the rising city! WeChat public account: Thinker Geyu Geyu QQ book club group: 437855842

An American middle school teacher spent ten years writing a story about his overnight fame. He fictionalized an island near Seattle with green cedars and strawberries, a small world closed by the sea, intertwined with love, war, racial discrimination and suspenseful murders... Two men came to the life of the Japanese girl Hatsue: Ishmael, a neighbor boy, was her first love, and they had the same breath; Miyamoto Kabuto, a Japanese classmate who had a crush on her and eventually became her husband, they were connected by blood. The Pearl Harbor incident broke out, and the contradiction between Japan and the United States intensified unprecedentedly. Japanese residents were deported to concentration camps in the western desert. Men take to the battlefield. The war rudely interrupted love and intertwined fate... Many years later, at the scene of a suspected murder trial, the three protagonists in a love story that could not seek justice reunited at the intersection of fate. The soul of an island and a Japanese suspect face the court trial together: the themes of good and evil, love and forgiveness, justice and prejudice, kindness and indifference are intertwined and played on the keys and strings of every unpredictable heart, forming a magnificent, subtle and soul-piercing symphony of humanity.

The beauty of Japan is popular all over the world, and Yasu Kawabata is indispensable for its success. He regards beauty as his "belief" and uses beautiful words to expand the realm of aesthetics. His thoughts gradually matured and were scattered in many essays, making it difficult for ordinary readers to get a full picture. Mr. Chen Dewen, a famous translator and scholar, has studied Kawabata Yasunari for decades, carefully sorted out, integrated and translated this book, which completely and accurately presents Kawabata's aesthetic ideological system and presents the essence of Japanese oriental aesthetics in a textbook style. People with high emotional intelligence, simply put, have strong empathy. The first thing is to have a keen sense of perception and be able to distinguish between beauty and ugliness. Reading Kawabata's prose is like communicating with Kawabata Yasumimoto himself, listening directly to the gentle words of this Eastern soul known as "the most sensitive and most understanding of beauty", and understanding the mystery of the beauty of Japan and the East.

This book is a memoir of Johnston, Puyi's British teacher. It focuses on Puyi, the last emperor of China, and describes modern China from a Western perspective. The whole book can be roughly divided into three stages based on time: the dying struggle of the Qing Dynasty (1898-1912); the end of the imperial system (1912-1924); and the life from Puyi's expulsion from the Forbidden City to his departure to Fengtian (1924-1931). In this book, Johnston not only describes the life of the last emperor from boyhood to youth, but also shows a series of major events from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China: from the Hundred Days Reform to the Boxer Rebellion, Yuan Shikai proclaimed himself emperor, Zhang Xun was restored, Feng Yuxiang launched the Beijing coup, and so on.

This book is a collection of short stories and short stories by the famous Austrian writer Zweig, including such masterpieces as "Letter from a Strange Woman" and "The Burning Secret". Zweig's novels have meticulous psychological descriptions, dramatic structures, and concise and beautiful language. The story tells the story of a lady from a distinguished family who had an unexplained adventure when she was forty-two years old. She was magically obsessed with the hand of a gambler in a casino and spent the night with him. This twenty-four-hour experience has been haunting her like a nightmare ever since, tormenting her until her later years.

Greece was born out of the bloody conflict between Christian Europe and the Ottoman Empire. In the approximately 300 years since 1718, Greece has built a modern nation-state on the ruins of a vanished civilization. After Roderick Beaton tells the story of the birth of the Greek nation-state at the beginning, he directly introduces the plot of the story into modern times and analyzes the grudges and resentments between Greece and other EU member states after the economic crisis. By examining in detail how Greeks understood their own shared identity, Beaton reveals centuries of Greek anxieties and insecurities about self-understanding. This is not only the story of the building of the Greek nation-state, but more fundamentally, the story of the collective identity that went hand in hand with the building of the nation-state; not only the history of major events and high politics, but also the history of culture, art, people and ideas. Beaton sees modern Greece as a living entity, a living entity, encouraging us to re-examine a people and history whose glorious past we have so long commemorated. The country and its people were struggling to build their future as part of the modern West. As an important country that affects the situation in Europe and a great country in the history of world civilization, Greece, between the East and the West, has too many mysteries, which this book will reveal one by one.

"Secret" is a classic collection of novels by Junichiro Tanizaki, a representative writer of Japanese aestheticism, including "Swastika", "Secret", "A Certain Motive for Crime" and other short and medium-sized novels. The novella "" uses the criss-cross meaning of the Japanese character "" to symbolize the intricate emotional relationship between two men and two women in the novel; the short stories "Secret" and "Some Motive for Crime" both have elements and colors of suspense reasoning. The former tells the story of "I" living in seclusion in a temple and the failure of pursuing "another world", while the latter is the psychological confession of a prisoner. The world of Tanizaki's novels is full of absurdity and weirdness, seeking beauty in ugliness, affirming goodness in praise, and thinking about the meaning of survival in death. The three novels all reflect Junichiro Tanizaki's aesthetic concepts very well and are permeated with his strong awareness of human emotions and psychology. Whether it is the Miyuki world that expresses demonism and "ugliness is beautiful", or the oriental culture that pursues Japanese classical beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki's works are permeated with a strong sense of human emotions and psychology. Yukio Mishima once evaluated Tanizaki Junichiro's works as "the peonies blooming brilliantly against the gloomy background of naturalistic literature".

This book is a collection of short stories by Shirley Jackson, the master of American short stories and queen of Gothic novels. It includes 21 of her most representative and well-known short stories. Many of his works have won literary awards, such as "The Lottery" (won the O. Henry Award in 1949), "Go Home, Louisa" (won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1961) and "The Possibility of Evil" (won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1966). In addition, many masterpieces such as "Come Dance with Me in Ireland" (1944), "Summer Man" (1951), "An Ordinary Day with Peanuts" (1956), "Slumber Party" (1964), etc. Have been selected into the "Best American Short Stories Annual". Shirley Jackson's novels often focus on the sudden falls that ordinary people encounter in gentle and familiar daily life, analyzing the dark side of human nature, and using irony to reveal the complex and sometimes chilling reality behind romantic fantasies.

"Giant" is the second part of the "Desire Trilogy". The novel continues the plot of "The Financier". Cowperwood leaves Philadelphia and goes to Chicago to seek development. This is the period of great development in Chicago at the end of the 19th century. He seeks business privileges, speculates on capital, and becomes a financial giant with hundreds of millions of assets. At the same time, his personal desires are also expanding. He used all means to seize wealth, became morally corrupt, and finally lost himself in desire.

[Full text free + Shuangjie 1v1] [The gentle and indifferent heroine vs the gangster and talkative male protagonist] In her previous life, Yu Zhining was the only daughter in the general's palace. She was originally a proud daughter of heaven and was loved by all. But just before she got married, her best friend snatched her position as future husband and concubine. She gave up her position as a concubine for love, but what she got in the end was that her family was destroyed overnight, and she died at the hands of her lover. After rebirth, she returned to her seventeenth year, and everything could be undone. She vowed to do her best to avoid the experiences of her previous life. She kept a respectful distance from the heartless prince and could not afford to offend him. However, not only have the past life experiences become more and more bizarre, but the heartless prince Li Chenxiu, who was supposed to be a gentleman, has now become shameless and shameless! He broke into the boudoir at night to give her medicine, and accidentally entered the bath to help her get her clothes. Yu Zhining smiled but said nothing, with murderous eyes in his eyes. She deeply felt that she was blind in her previous life and fell in love with a madman? ? Yu Zhining: "Your Majesty, stay away from me!" Li Chenxiu: "Call me to be honest, I'll think about it." Yu Zhining: "..." She silently pulled out the soft sword. Sure enough, this man was still alive to cause trouble for her! Reading Guide: There is only each other between the male and female protagonists! No one else! No cruelty, healthy physically and mentally. The male protagonist will never be a scumbag or a scumbag in his next life! In this life, the long road to chasing my wife begins ~

The novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" is McCullers' masterpiece. It tells the story of a bizarre love triangle in a wild town in the south of the United States, between the wealthy, talented but withdrawn Miss Amelia, the hunchback cousin Raymond with unknown origins, and the bad ex-husband Marvin Macy, centered on a cafe transformed from a grocery store. It explores the unequal relationship between loving and being loved, the impact of environmental opportunities on talent, and the enlightenment of people's understanding in a limited life...

In "The Narrow Gate", "I" and Alyssa are childhood sweethearts. In the eyes of "I", Alyssa is noble, gentle and dignified. "I" feel ashamed and have been reluctant to confess my love to Alyssa. "I" try my best to become a perfect person like Alyssa and then enter into a marriage contract with her. Year after year, time passed by, "I" and Alyssa misunderstood and missed each other again and again, which eventually became an eternal regret...

Novelist Alice moved to a strange coastal town alone, met blue-collar worker Felix on a dating app, and invited him to accompany her to Rome to promote her new book. In Dublin, her best girlfriend Eileen, fresh from a broken relationship, starts dating Simon, whom she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Irene, and Simon are all over thirty. They are still young, but life is gradually catching up with them. They long for each other, hide from each other, separate and reunite. They worry about love and sex, friendship and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last room with light before dark, witnessing something? Can they believe that there is still a beautiful world?

"Member of the Wedding" is McCullers' most mature work. In the 1950s, she adapted it into a play that ran on Broadway for 501 consecutive performances. It was a huge success and became a classic in the theater world. Frankie, a 12-year-old girl, has been suffocated by a vague but strong dissatisfaction. Her dream is to attend her brother's wedding, go on their honeymoon with them, fly far away, and become one of them. But in this girl's world, "in that green and crazy summer", every lonely person is locked in their own inner space, unable to have any meaningful communication. In the end, she found that she had no relationship with her brother and her bride, and she was still alone...

The novel begins with pharmacy owner Malone being diagnosed with leukemia and ends with his death. Three characters surround Malone: ​​Judge Fox Crane, a former congressman in his 80s, the judge's grandson, Jester, a 17-year-old high school student, and Sherman, a black youth of the same year. Mr. Malone was diagnosed with leukemia, and since then his life has become a clock without hands; Judge Crane is still obsessed with the glorious history of the past South, and even fantasizes about restoring slavery; the judge's grandson Jester intends to find out the cause of his father's death, and the black orphan Sherman is determined to find his biological mother. This series of stories are intertwined. The novel is framed by the symbolic "clock without hands" and revolves around "death", deriving multiple themes about racial discrimination, growth issues, and intergenerational conflicts. McCullers attempted to combine the personal existential crisis of a dying man with the social crisis of the South stemming from racial conflict.

I think my favorite place in the world is the kitchen. Sakurai Mikage's parents died young, and after the death of her grandmother, who had always been dependent on each other, she became truly alone. In times of despair, Yuichi Tanabe, a classmate who had been cared for by his grandma, warmly invited Miying to move in with him. Yuichi's mother, Eriko, has a special identity of changing from a father to a mother who wears two hats. Meiying found a sense of belonging in this strange family and settled down. While getting along with Yuichi's mother and son, Miying gradually opened up her heart, let go of her ex-boyfriend, and accepted the reality of her grandmother's death. She was reborn in her heart and began to live an independent life again. After Eriko was killed by a guest, Mikage came to comfort Yuichi, and the two, who were neither relatives nor lovers, began to live together. Yuichi's confession was not accepted for a while. A relationship that is not understood by the world is misunderstood. Okuno, who has an unrequited love for Yuichi, comes to accuse and abuse Mikage. Mikage temporarily leaves Yuichi on a business trip, and Yuichi painfully chooses to escape temporarily.

Reflection in the Golden Eye is an important early work by McCullers. It inherits the legacy of grotesque literature and Gothic novels in the American South. It compresses the two themes of loneliness and suppressed desire into a limited and closed space - a dull and monotonous military post in the American South. - As a carrier, through a series of incredible daily events caused by these abnormal people who are required to be obedient and abiding by the rules, but almost all of them are deviant and even deviant, until an inevitable murder, in a fable and prose style but full of suspense and Gothic form, it twists and turns to show the deformed people under the squeeze of normal society and the tragic consequences that their long-repressed and unresolved desires may bring. In 1966, McCullers personally served as the screenwriter, and Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor performed the impossible love of this abnormal person on the big screen.