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Unabridged version, Maugham's analysis of human nature, Maugham's former residence collection version, high score on Douban, a classic for women's spiritual awakening! Marquez, Haruki Murakami, George Orwell, Eileen Chang, and Naipaul unanimously recommend it. The Maugham House Collection version is highly recommended by Douban!

"Camel Xiangzi" takes the whereabouts of Xiangzi, a rickshaw puller from Peiping (today's Beijing) as a clue, and the life of Beijing citizens in the late 1920s as the background. It describes the ups and downs and tragic experience of Xiangzi's transformation from a man to a "beast", and praises Xiangzi's hard-working, simple, kind and progressive qualities. It profoundly exposes the darkness of old China, accuses the ruling class of the exploitation and oppression of workers, expresses the author's deep concern and sympathy for the suffering fate of the working people struggling at the bottom of society, and shows people the picture of Beijing's poor citizens at the bottom living in an abyss of pain under the warlords' melee and dark rule.

This book is a novel with strong regional characteristics and distinctive color of the times written by the famous writer Li Di. Li Di used real life as creative material and followed up interviews with character prototypes for more than a year. Finally, he used the heroine's personal life experience as a narrative perspective and used Beijing accent and Beijing flavor to create a tragic female image like Lu Juer, who dares to love and hate, is forthright and kind, and has the courage to fight against a bumpy fate. Lu Ju'er's fate has been ups and downs, with emotions ups and downs, but she remains sober, self-possessed, and never willing to go with the flow. Against the background of a turbulent era, Lu Juer enjoyed happiness in times of poverty, and went through fire and water when in love. After half a century of vicissitudes, she can still shed tears for love...

The book "Past Stories in Wangcheng" records the long and ups and downs of the protagonist Jiang Zhizhong's life from the age of 6 to 70. Jiang Zhizhong experienced the death of his parents when he was 13 years old. He raised his sisters in turn with hardships alone. However, he lost his qualifications for the college entrance examination because of his excellent moral character and academic performance, which became his lifelong regret. From the group of people who got rich early after the reform and opening up to the various emotional temptations and entanglements that the protagonist later faced, Jiang Zhizhong's supposedly ordinary life turned out to be extraordinary. This book tells the sincere and touching emotional stories that happened around the protagonist at various major historical nodes, and highlights the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in my country's rural areas after the reform and opening up. The protagonist Jiang Zhizhong is an ordinary old farmer among all living beings, but his ups and downs life is so legendary!

When he was in high school in Nagoya, Tsukuru Tazaki had four very close friends, two boys and two girls. Their last names all had the colors "red", "green", "white" and "black". Only Tsukuru Tazaki's name had "no color", and he was the only one who left Nagoya to study at university in Tokyo. When Tsukuru Tazaki returned home during his sophomore year vacation, he was suddenly told by four of his friends to break off their friendship, without any explanation of the reasons. He was hit so hard that he was almost out of shape, and it took him a long time to recover. They have not seen each other for sixteen years. Now thirty-six years old, Tsukuru Tazaki, under the advice of his girlfriend, finally made up his mind to visit the four friends who abandoned him to find out the truth. Thus began his "year of pilgrimage". When the last piece of the puzzle is put together and the mystery is revealed, the secrets of sixteen years ago, the changes that took place in the past sixteen years, and the ending sixteen years later are all shocking and sad...

"Escape" is the masterpiece of 2013 Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. It tells the story of the power of love and endless betrayal, the restlessness and missed opportunities in trivial life, and the escapes again and again, and the price people pay for it. Munro focuses on daily life and is good at capturing the complex and subtle relationships between people. People of different ages and situations are vivid and tangible in Munro's simple and restrained writing style. Everyone will always encounter something or someone that makes you feel like a fatal needle has been stuck somewhere in your lungs. You may not feel the pain when you breathe more shallowly. But whenever I need to take a deep breath, I can feel that the needle is always there.

Shen Yixin, the third generation potential heir to the Xiuyuan Group, crashed during a private flight. He was lucky to be rescued, but his instructor Su Bingnan died unfortunately. Su Bingnan's daughter Su Qingyao applied for the Xiuyuan Group to become a "medical representative". While struggling in the workplace, she approached the insider Shen Yixin to learn the truth about the crash. Her uncle Su Binghao believed that her eldest brother's death was caused by Shen Yixin and vowed revenge. Xiuyuan Group is listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Grandpa Shen Mojin does not want the group to become a money-making machine for Wall Street. He wants to revive the ancient Chinese medicine Sheyixian. Although Shen Yixin is the third generation heir of the family, she has always been excluded and plotted by the family. He turned his grandfather's wish into his own ideal and started quietly from the bottom. Xiuyuan Group is in trouble both internally and externally, with various forces fighting overtly and covertly. The truth was peeled away layer by layer, the reality was dripping with blood, and the dead relatives made Shen Yixin and Su Qingyao understand, and they chose to forgive and be grateful. The ancient recipe of She Yixian reappears, and they fight side by side. Su Binghao goes further and further on the road of revenge...

"1984" is an outstanding dystopian and anti-totalitarian political allegory novel. It presents a bold and brilliant analysis of authoritarian politics, horrific totalitarianism, and the future of mankind. It can be called an epoch-making masterpiece. It is like a distinctive label, warning the world not to let this predicted darkness become a reality.

This book is a novel about what an aerial pilot sees and thinks, and is one of Saint-Exupéry's Flight Trilogy. This book mainly tells the story of Saint-Exupery's exploration of life and civilization from the perspective of aviation. He discovered from high altitude that human beings only live on a planet that is mostly composed of mountains, sand, salt-alkali land and oceans. Life on it is just like moss on a pile of rubble, sparsely growing in the cracks. Civilization is as fragile as the afterglow of the setting sun. Volcanic eruptions, sea and land changes, and wind and sand can all destroy it. These formed Saint-Exupéry's view: In the final analysis, life is not a gift given by God, but a problem that everyone has to face. Human value is not innate but acquired.

My name is Eddie, I am a boy, and on Christmas morning, I walked into the police station. A few hours ago, just as the Christmas bells were ringing, I met Red, a plumber. After a pleasant conversation, we went home together to celebrate the holiday. However, an accident happened and I was attacked by him. The police, friends, and relatives all asked me to review the cause, process, and details of the incident over and over again. As a victim, I have lost the right to remain silent. Suddenly, it seemed like everyone had Red's face, which scared me to the core. No one could understand the pain in my heart, and no one was aware of my confusion and fear. The hurt is like a movie that never ends, and I become the only audience. Perhaps only escape can change the painful life...

In April 1942, Slovak Jew Lale was forcibly sent to Auschwitz. The multilingual Lale was forced to work as a tattoo artist in the concentration camp, where he had to leave permanent marks on the skin of thousands of prisoners. In the concentration camp, Lale witnessed horrific atrocities and also witnessed the kindness of human nature. He risked his life and used his privilege to extend the lives of his surviving compatriots by exchanging jewelry and money from the murdered Jews in exchange for food and medicine. One day, Lale met a young woman in the queue waiting for a tattoo, and he had to tattoo the number "4562" on her arm. At that moment, Lale silently vowed that they must survive and enjoy a happy life under the free sky... "The Tattooist of Auschwitz" is based on real people and true stories, telling a story about humanity and hope. Under the haze of the Nazis, witness the eternity of miracles and love.

Linda, a fourteen-year-old girl, lives with her parents in a lakeside cabin in the northern forests of Minnesota. In order to escape her lonely life, she gave herself a new name "Madeline". But her former isolated living environment made her still feel out of place in school. But when fate closes a door, it will definitely open a window for you. Linda's life seems to have turned around - with the encouragement of a new history teacher, she participated in the "History Journey" competition and gave a speech titled "The History of Wolves"; on the other hand, the newly moved young couple were hospitable and opened the warm door of "family" to Linda. Just when she felt that she could "integrate" into the crowd smoothly, she discovered that the adult world was far from being as simple as it seemed - the history teacher she had just met was accused of bad conduct, while the seemingly warm-hearted and kind-hearted new neighbor had an unpredictable family relationship. The line between good and evil becomes blurred. After witnessing all this, Linda finally learned to observe the world in her own way, but as a result, she moved towards deeper loneliness. The story is poetic and complex, blending elements of thriller and suspense that are both heartbreaking and unforgettable. Perhaps, going through thorns is growth, and wounds just mean being strong enough.

In 1938, the domestic political situation was turbulent and the people were in dire straits. Japan even implemented a "salt blockade" policy against China in an attempt to defeat China materially. Zhongxian County, Chongqing, the salt supply center in eastern Sichuan, was controlled by the local warlord "Wude Lijinhui". Li Tiancheng, a special commissioner of the Kuomintang, was "parachuted down" to Zhongxian County to take over the salt industry. At the same time, Li Tiancheng, as a communist lurking within the Kuomintang, secretly assisted the Communist Party. During a large-scale salt transportation mission, the Kuomintang's salt transportation team was robbed. The Kuomintang and the Communist Party formed a joint investigation team in response to this incident. During the investigation, the Kuomintang took the opportunity to eliminate the influence of the "Budoku Regiment Association" in Zhong County. However, they did not expect that the secret action plan of Japanese spies at the salt industry ceremony was already quietly underway...

This book is Duras's second novel. Emotional and sober language, a plot shrouded in the shadow of death. In a remote village, faced with poverty and hatred, a twenty-five-year-old girl yearns for life and love in loneliness. Life passes slowly and quickly amid superficial calm and inner struggle. Duras, who was just starting out, wrote strange and confusing sentences and concise and clear story clues.

The original name of this book is "Evaluation of Popular Romance Type Shiyan by Zhengxiao Guan". It was compiled by Lu Renlong in Qiantang and commented by Lu Yunlong. It was published by Zhengxiao Guan Bookstore in the fifth year of Chongzhen. It has eight volumes and 40 chapters. It is a novel in the form of a script. The book "Xing Shiyan" is rarely circulated. About ten years after its publication, it is difficult to find it. Around the 16th year of Chongzhen, Jiangnan Shujia revised and edited it, reprinted 30 chapters according to the original format, wrote a new chapter for each chapter, changed the title of the book to "Three Inscriptions", and the author also changed his signature to Mengjue Taoist and West Lake Prodigal.

The book "Golden House" profoundly demonstrates the changes in the mentality and life of Chinese rural people under the baptism of the commodity economy. The work profoundly expresses the shock and hope that reform has brought to rural areas and farmers. The quiet and peaceful ancient countryside has quietly undergone a series of changes under the impact of the commodity economy, but faith and reason eventually became people's spiritual home. The author uses a realistic style and a series of plot arrangements and character creation to show the grand theme that rural reform is the general trend and the people's aspiration. The author has a broad vision and solid foundation, showing us a vivid picture of contemporary rural reform and a high-pitched ode to reform.

The protagonist Yelang is one of Jia Pingwa's flesh-and-blood but sympathetic characters. He did not have a noble background, but came to Xijing alone to make a living with his drive for constant pursuit. At the beginning of the novel, it is written that Yelang met and followed Zhu Yihe through Nanding Mountain, but this experience soon disappeared when Zhu Yihe collapsed. Frustrated in his career, Yelang had no choice but to focus on love. He likes the elegant-minded Yu Bai, but he is an ordinary person. The difference in status and the troubles of fatalism make Yelang miserable. He can only get the comfort of love from Yan Ming, who has the same status as him and is beautiful. A soul that is unwilling to be at the mercy of fate finally returns to its "original position" under the torture of the world. This is the tragedy of Yelang and the tragedy of life. It is impossible for everything to go smoothly in a person's life. In the process of struggling, one always has to face choices of one kind or another. Left or right? People are always in such a contradiction, because no matter what they choose, it means betrayal or giving up on something else. It is a self-evident truth to choose the good and give up the bad, but in real life, there are some things that we have no way of distinguishing between true and false and good or bad, and Yelang's choice in love is exactly like this.

"The Surprise at the First Moment" is a collection of Chinese novels written by Ling Shuchu in the late Ming Dynasty. The book was written in the seventh year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty (1627), and was published by Shangyoutang Bookstore in the second year. Later, Ling Shuchu compiled "The Surprise of Shooting the Case at Two Moments" and published it in the fifth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty (1632). The two books are collectively called "Er Pai". The contents of the books are very complex, and their ideological tendencies are also different. They mainly include works that describe the thoughts, actions, fate of businessmen, and works that describe marriage and love. Although most of the story themes come from the writings of previous generations, after Ling's re-creation, they express the social reality and atmosphere of the times in the late Ming Dynasty, and are imbued with Ling's own ideas and cynical resentment.

This is an original novel with the Bethune Peace Hospital as the background and the theme of "inheriting the red gene and shouldering the important task of strengthening the army". The novel has created a group of outstanding inheritors of Bethune's spirit, such as Tang Junsheng, Bai Yiyi, Xu Hongjun, etc. They are conscientious, hard-working and courageous, and spare no effort to rescue the injured soldier Tao Bing and others. It demonstrates Bethune's spirit of "no self-interest, dedicated to benefiting others" and "extreme responsibility for work, extreme enthusiasm for the people, and excellence in technology", and also shows the style of the joint logistics support force. Tang Junsheng's life is a good example of what it means to be a "rebel". She has always been at the forefront of many major missions. In 2003, she went to the front line to fight the epidemic as soon as she got married; in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, for more than 80 days and nights, she and her comrades successfully rescued 10 people trapped under the rubble, treated 131 injured, and evacuated tens of thousands of people; in April 2010, she rushed to the rescue of Yushu for earthquake relief. She "would rather sacrifice her life to fulfill her mission" and cooperated with the obstetrician and gynecologist at the time to deliver 76 babies in Yushu. In 2012, Tang Junsheng went to South Sudan with the peacekeeping medical team for peacekeeping. In 2018, he joined the peacekeeping medical team again and died under artillery fire...

It is said that this Tiandi Society has a long history, which can be traced back to the Tiandihui in the early Qing Dynasty. Later, when the Qing Dynasty became more prosperous, Zhu Ming saw that it could not be restored. This group of people split from the Tiandihui, sometimes scattered and sometimes gathered. When dispersed, they work independently; when gathered, they become a civil force that cannot be ignored. During the war in the late Qing Dynasty, some of these people came to Shanghai to make a living. They were afraid of being bullied by foreigners, so they reunited and renamed themselves "Tiandi Society" after the former Tiandi Society. Since it is a gang, the Tiandi Society is inevitably involved in some activities such as stealing, stealing, and robbing homes. It has always been looked down upon by the general public until Zhang Baichuan came out and took the post of chief inspector of the patrol room to subdue this group of thugs. After that, the Tiandi Society officially became the largest gang in Shanghai. But now that the highest generation in the club is "big", Zhang Baichuan relies on his ability to accept both right and wrong, and actually makes arrogant remarks that he is a generation with "tian", which makes some old men in the club quite dissatisfied, but they can't do anything about him.

Austen's popular classic; the translator Wu Lao wrote the "Translation Preface", which provides a comprehensive analysis of the classic. This book is Austen's first published work, and it can be called a companion volume to Pride and Prejudice. Two sisters, Eleanor and Marianne, were born into a decent British squire family. The elder sister is good at controlling her emotions with reason, but the younger sister has no restraint in emotions. Therefore, when they encounter setbacks in love, the two have different reactions: the older sister endures humiliation and is always kind to others; the younger sister is arrogant and almost collapses... And the fate of the protagonist The love-related idle squire's wife, the snobbish and ruthless brother-in-law's family, the hypocritical distant sisters of the philistine, and the lovers who are either morally corrupt or upright and weak in the hearts of girls all appear in this storm, creating a classic story that is famous for its delicate writing and vivid dialogue, and tells the story of the marriage and love of girls without a wealthy dowry.

It sold more than 500,000 copies within 2 months of publication and was the winner of the 158th Akutagawa Prize. The book that is hotly discussed by all media in Japan is a landmark work that marks the birth of Japan's "Xuan Dong Literature". Once it was published, it appeared on Japan's Amazon bestseller list and created a Japanese book sales miracle. This elderly literary newcomer who has astonished the Japanese literary world uses this book to testify that it is never too late to start life. The author Chisako Wakatake lived alone and had conversations with herself in her twilight years. She debuted with this autobiographical work at the age of 63, making her the oldest new literary figure in Japan. The "Tokyo Women's Illustrated Book" by an alternative elderly person humorously writes about the brave soul in the old age. The charming "older" heroine Tao Zi tells us about her calmness after the storms of life, letting us understand that even when we are old, we can fight, take risks, and be fearless. From taking on social and family roles step by step, to living for yourself, it is written for everyone who wants to be reborn in loneliness. This is a spiritual murmur of living toward death, a lonely man's farewell and departure, a woman's awakening and rebirth, and also the true second half of each of us: facing a hometown that cannot be returned, and relatives and loved ones that cannot be returned, should we endure or start over? The film adaptation will be released in 2020, directed by Shuichi Okita, the director of "Yokomichi Seinosuke" and "Antarctic Cooker", with actors Yuko Tanaka and Yu Aoi starring as the heroine's old age and youth.

A must-read for women who pursue independence! I was ambitious and decided to find myself and become myself. The second part of the classic masterpiece "The Coming of Ages" by Byatt, the world's leading literary figure and winner of the Booker Prize, has been released in Chinese for the first time. (The four parts are "Girl in the Garden", "Still Life", "Tower of Babel" and "The Whistling Woman") The author of this book is Booker Prize winner A. S. Byatt, who was named one of the 50 great British writers since 1945 by The Times. Byatt has been invited to China many times and held talks with Wang Anyi, vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association. Many key universities in China have set off a "Byatt research craze", publishing many academic works, and more than 300 related academic papers can be found. The simplified Chinese version has three major collection values: 1. Carefully translated by Huang Xie'an, associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Advanced Translation and Interpretation of Shanghai International Studies University, with a postscript that decodes the mental journey of the characters in detail in the book 2. Elegant oil paintings by world-renowned cross-border artist Danny McBride 3. Comes with a special volume of "\u003C Still Life\u003E Dictionary" that contains 108 art-related annotations, covering literature, painting, architecture, philosophy... To help you understand and thoroughly understand the master's classics. In the UK in the 1950s, a pair of sisters from an elite family of intellectuals entered a new stage of life: after marriage, the world of sister Stephanie became increasingly narrow: filled with her husband's tired complaints, her mother-in-law's mean and difficult things, and the overwhelming number of baby diapers, but there was no room for a volume of her beloved Wordsworth's poetry. She became "Mother" and "Mrs. Orton"... But lost "Stephanie". After entering college, her sister Frederica's life became more and more broad: from Paris to Cambridge, from Van Gogh to Shakespeare, from one man to another, through glory and humiliation, and into the unknown. She trembles, enjoys, desires, is full of energy and never stops.

The story of Xiangzi, a young, energetic and energetic rickshaw puller in the city of Peiping, China, who experienced three ups and downs in his life. Xiangzi came from the countryside. He was a bankrupt young farmer who was diligent, simple and kind. He retained everything that the countryside had nurtured and taught him, but he never wanted to go back to the countryside. Xiangzi, who came to the city from the countryside, was eager to buy a car of his own with his honest labor. It was Xiangzi's wish, hope, and even religion to be an independent worker. With diligence and perseverance, he spent three years frugally, and finally realized his ideal and became a self-reliant first-class coachman. But just half a year after pulling the cart, the cart was kidnapped by deserters in the chaos of war. Xiangzi lost the cart and only brought back three camels. Xiangzi was not discouraged. He still stubbornly started from scratch and worked harder to save money. However, before he could buy another car, all his savings were extorted and robbed by detectives, and his dream of buying a car came to nothing again. When Xiangzi pulled into his car again, it was at the expense of a deformed marriage with Huniu. The good times did not last long, because Huniu died in childbirth, and he had to sell the rickshaw to attend to the funeral. At this point, his life ideals were effectively shattered. Coupled with the suicide of his beloved woman Xiao Fuzi, the last spark of hope in his heart was blown out. Suffering repeated blows from life, Xiangzi began to lose any aspirations and confidence in life. He could no longer muster the courage to live. He was no longer proud of pulling carts as before. He hated pulling carts and hated working. Xiangzi, who was teased by life, started playing games, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. In order to drink, Xiangzi swindled money everywhere and became a "urban garbage". In the end, he made a living by working as a handyman for weddings and funerals. Xiangzi was reduced from a "decent, strong, dreamy, self-interested, personal, strong, and great" lower-class worker to a "degenerate, selfish, unfortunate, born in the womb of social disease, and the end of individualism."

"Edge" (1993) is a novel in which Ge Fei perfected the narrative of avant-garde novels in the early 1990s. The novel starts from "I"'s review of my entire life as I grow old, and uses countless important life fragments to piece together "I"'s ups and downs experience - a childhood life amidst isolation and loneliness, a cruel and absurd youth career, and returning home. Later, I was involved in the rolling torrent of society... Familiar or unfamiliar figures emerged one by one in "my" life journey, and their stories wrapped "me" in them, and "I" was like a bystander in life, quietly watching their arrival and departure. The novel shows the life and fragile fate of "marginal people" from different character perspectives. The 42 fragments in memory reflect the magnificent history of China in the 20th century, and condense into a kind of clarity and indifference suspended above the joys and sorrows.

I, a 71-year-old psychological counselor who is counting down to retirement; Agathe, a 38-year-old middle-aged man suffering from severe bipolar disorder; a psychological counseling room that is like a tree hole to listen to life stories - we meet here to rebuild our lives after the loss of meaning.

Whenever someone-a taxi driver, a dentist-asks me what I do, I tell them I'm an "office worker." In nine years, no one has ever asked me what kind of office it is, or what kind of work I do there. I'm not complaining, that's fine. I have always avoided being associated with others. I don't have a mobile phone, and I rarely use the Internet; I never take the initiative to chat with my colleagues; except for people from the Social Security Bureau, water meter readers, missionaries, and food delivery people, no one visits my apartment. Sometimes, I feel that my connection to the earth is as weak as a spider's thread. With just a strong gust of wind, I can fly away from the ground, like a dandelion seed. Whenever silence and loneliness overwhelmed me, I talked to Polly. Polly was my potted plant, the only surviving creature from my childhood, who followed me through various foster homes. In fact, I was just like Polly, requiring only minimal care and attention and mostly being self-reliant. I know what others say about me behind my back: weird, weird, crazy. But it doesn't bother me at all. I'm fine, great. I don't need anyone else - there are no big holes in my life, no missing pieces in my personal puzzle. At least, that's what I believed until I met Raymond.

2074, United States. Environmental pollution, energy crisis, seawater intrusion, urban relocation, people looking up and seeing fighter jets are as common as seeing birds. This year, history repeated itself, and the North and the South went to war. At this time, Sarath was 6 years old. After his father died, his family fled from south to north, and was forced to settle in the Patience refugee camp. Here, ten years passed in a blink of an eye, and life and death followed one after another: at the age of 12, her mother died in a massacre, at the age of 17, her sister died in a bombing, her brother's whereabouts were unknown, and finally she herself, said goodbye to the past and was used for the war. The pain of war is the only common language of mankind. It changes and destroys people in the same way, making people equally timid, angry, eager for revenge, and thrown into an unpredictable future...

"100: The Book of Science Fiction" consists of 4 volumes. It is edited by the senior American science fiction writers and editors Mr. And Mrs. Vandermeer. It contains 100 classic short science fiction novels written by 100 science fiction masters from 20 countries in the 20th century. It includes bold predictions of cutting-edge technology, ultimate conjectures about human life and society, and fearless exploration of the vast galaxy and the end of time. It is no exaggeration to say that this is likely to be an unparalleled science fiction anthology in the past, present and even the future. It is a gluttonous feast for hardcore science fiction fans and an entry-level choice for readers who are eager to try out the science fiction literature. The main authors and works included in this volume of "II" include: "The Visitor" by the Strugatsky brothers, "2BR02B" by Kurt Vonnegut, "Repent, Clown!" By Harlan Ellison, There are 25 works including "The Soft Clock" by Aramaki Yoshio, "Big and Stagnant, More Than an Empire" by Ursula Le Guin, "Let's Save the Universe" by Stanislav Lem, and "The Game of Rats and Dragons" by Cordewina Smith.

"100: The Book of Science Fiction" consists of 4 volumes. It is edited by the senior American science fiction writers and editors Mr. And Mrs. Vandermeer. It contains 100 classic short science fiction novels written by 100 science fiction masters from 20 countries in the 20th century. It includes bold predictions of cutting-edge technology, ultimate conjectures about human life and society, and fearless exploration of the vast galaxy and the end of time. It is no exaggeration to say that this is likely to be an unparalleled science fiction anthology in the past, present and even the future. It is a gluttonous feast for hardcore science fiction fans and an entry-level choice for readers who are eager to try out the science fiction literature. This volume of "I Steal the Star" mainly collects science fiction works from the early 20th century to the 1950s, including 25 works by famous writers such as Isaac Asimov's "The Last Question", Arthur C.

1965, As Gorge, Provence. This is a country that belongs to childhood, or to be more precise, it is a country that belongs to children, a lonely child, a lost child. 12-Year-old Beike lives with his parents in a gas station. He is a unique child. His language skills are limited and he is often laughed at by other children in the class. His teacher also suggested that he be sent to a special school. Beike was very worried that one day his parents would really send him away and no longer care about him, but that day came anyway. Curious about the smell of cigarettes, Shell accidentally set fire to the bushes, and his parents were tempted to send him away. In fear, Beike quietly left home. On the first morning after leaving home, he met an equally "strange" little girl Vivian, and Beike's true understanding of the outside world began.

Every fall to evil was an effort at self-redemption. "If my father had not killed, I would not have been born." Garza was born into sin. His father was a trafficker and he was an accomplice of the trafficker. At the age of 9, he became a snakehead; at the age of 10, he took his first human life; at the age of 11, he was indifferent to the separation of life and death; at the age of 12, a ghost named Kumar lived in his mind and never left; at the age of 13, he was completely dead... Having witnessed the decline of too many lives in the face of survival, he gradually lost the emotions and emotions that a child and a person should have. "It only took me five years to turn into a terrible monster. I am the sum of my father, Aruzi, Dodor and Harman. In fact, I am worse than them combined. After all, I am still a child, only 14 years old." In Gaza's life of less than 30 years, despair and hope tossed him back and forth. He wanted to escape, but the reality was an invisible rope that bound him tightly. And the past slowly turned into a ferocious beast, waiting all day long, always ready to swallow him up.

Who is Dunbar? The founder of a media empire, with power and wealth at its peak. But that was all in the past tense, and now, he is a dim and fragile old man. The two daughters perfectly inherited his greed and cruelty, imprisoning their father in an expensive nursing home in England's Lake District. Leaping over the sanatorium, Dunbar succeeded. In the wilderness of Cumbria, he thought of the word "the center of the wilderness", returned to the starting point, and rethought "who am I", "where should I go?" And "how should I live?". In the search of public opinion and manpower, no one knows the whereabouts of Dunbar...

"The Story of Hulan River" is the representative work of Xiao Hong's novels. By recalling various characters and life scenes in his hometown, he expresses the author's denial of the social reality of old China that distorts human nature and damages personality. Xiao Hong used her skillful recall skills, lyrical prose style, and heavy yet light writing style to create her "memory-style" works that will be handed down from generation to generation. Mao Dun once commented on the artistic achievements of "The Story of Hulan River": it is a narrative poem, a colorful folk painting, and a string of sad ballads. The feelings of "loneliness and depression" revealed in the works proposed by many researchers can actually be understood from this perspective. The novel is divided into 7 chapters, with an orderly beginning and an epilogue. The famous literary master Mao Dun wrote a preface.

This book tells the story of the heroine who originally had a happy family and a smooth career, but it fell apart when she was 29 years old. Her husband cheated on her and her career stagnated. After the pain of childbirth, she regained herself, started over, and found a new meaning of love, family, and career. A woman over thirty years old seems like a horse riding on a roof. She stands high and can see far, but can't go anywhere. Yan Suoxin is twenty-nine years old this year, but she has no experience of ordinary girls of the same age struggling with love, marriage, and work. Yan Suoxin works in a Fortune 500 company, going in and out of the top floor of a top office building in Shanghai every day, and has a fiancé who is urging her to get her certificate. Then a workplace accident disrupts everything.

This book is a collection of novellas by Aweimu Yiluo. It contains the author's latest novels in the past two years, including "Ant-Man", "The Man Who Cannot Fall to Death", and "Son of Man", etc., All of which have been published in literary journals such as "People's Literature", "Zhongshan", and "Selected Novels". The chapters selected in this book, such as "Ant-Man", mostly tell the lives and dreams of little people and depict their struggles. They may be busy with life all day long, or they may be forced to seek relief from pressure, but in the end they do not give up their dreams and feel the small blessings in life. The novel is infiltrated with the author's own life experience and has a unique personal style. It still retains the blue sky and white clouds of his hometown in the tense urban life.

"Taozhi Yaoyao" narrates the half-life self-esteem and forbearance of a woman named Yu Xiaoqiu in the Shanghai market. Her youthful beauty is considered a dazzling symbol of restlessness in the eyes of others. And her life experience is also a topic of gossip among countless people in the market. Under Wang Anyi's almost detailed and cumbersome realistic approach, an unusual girl in a Shanghai alley unexpectedly walks out on a difficult but pure life path; and the world of Shanghai's small citizens is no longer the background of the story, but becomes a flesh-and-blood life itself.

"Heroes Everywhere" tells the story of Han Yanlai, a Shanghai boy living in the urban-rural fringe area. From a new perspective, it describes the struggle and fate of the urban marginalized people at the bottom of society. Han Yanlai, a child from an ordinary farmer's family in the suburbs of Shanghai, encountered an unexpected incident on Christmas night, which pulled him from his normal life as a taxi driver into a completely different situation.

The heroine Zhang Daling in "Thirty Chapters of Running Water" is the descendant of the daughter of an ordinary small business owner in Shanghai. Zhang Daling's mother was a spoiled young lady when she was a girl. Zhang Daling's father has always accommodated her and protected her. They continue to live their lives and have children based on a kind of inertia. When Zhang Daling was born, her mother could no longer feed her, so she was sent to the countryside to raise her. When she was a little older, Zhang Daling was taken back to Shanghai to go to school. After graduating from middle school, she went to work in the village of Jingangzui for eight years before returning to the city. This book reflects a woman's life journey from infancy to adulthood.

"Midnight" was written between 1931 and 1932. It unfolds the tragedy of the struggle, prosperity and failure of the national industrial capitalist Wu Sunfu. It is called China's first successful realist novel, and is considered by some literary researchers to be a masterpiece comparable to "In Search of Lost Time" and "One Hundred Years of Solitude". This edition is a hardcover collector's edition, and is accompanied by 19 illustrations specially created for "Midnight" by the famous painter Mr. Ye Qianyu. Both the pictures and the text are classics in the history of literature and art. We hope to bring readers more comfortable and rich artistic enjoyment.

In the late Ming Dynasty, the Shen family of Shanghai County built "Tianxiang Garden". The second generation Shen Kehai married Xiaosi, and they were deeply in love. By chance, he took the Min family as a concubine, and they have been entangled in grudges ever since. Min is the daughter of a Suzhou weaver. She has embroidery skills, which she brought into the Shen family. Together with Xiaosi, they created "Tianxiangyuan Embroidery". Xizhao, the wife of A Qian, the third generation of the Shen family, even used needlework, calligraphy and painting to embroider, which is unique in the world. Huilan, the daughter of Ah Qian's brother Ah Fang, married into the Zhang family and became a widow after giving birth to a son. The Shen family was in decline, and the Zhang family was also poor. Xi Zhao, Huilan and others used "Tianxiang Garden Embroidery" to support their family income.

By an accident and a strange combination of circumstances, the protagonist of the novel was taken away by the kidnappers. The kidnappers abandoned him in a mountain col in order to eliminate traces. He struggled to live here alone and spent the entire autumn and winter. In the spring, he accidentally caused a wildfire. After escaping, he was rescued and was sent to a nursing home in a mountain town. Unexpectedly, he met the kidnapper at the time. He also looked for an opportunity to go to the county welfare home and found his family in Shanghai. But when he was about to return home, he fell into the river and followed the river to the sea.

Wang Anyi used her usual steady, meticulous and strict writing style to break it apart and crush it into pieces, telling the story of the extraordinary growth process of the third generation of young people in detail. The novel describes the spiritual shock experienced by several children of cadres and citizens in Shanghai in the mid-1960s when they were suddenly hit by a violent storm, and their subsequent thoughts on revolution, ideals, life, and society, as well as their process from simple and naive boyhood to sensitive and rational youth. Wang Anyi's characterization is from the inside out, full of philosophical meaning and rationality, which makes her novels have a higher level of artistic authenticity and deeper typicality.

Mothupi's parents and sisters were brutally murdered by a group of gangsters, and his peaceful life was turned upside down...

This book is the earliest collection of short stories by Lu Yin, the first-generation famous female writer during the May Fourth Movement. Among them, "Old Friend on the Seaside" is Lu Yin's masterpiece of short stories in her short writing career of more than ten years. The work describes the youth of the May Fourth period, who were naive and romantic, weaving a future kingdom of freedom with fantasy. However, he deeply felt the loneliness of the world and the misfortune of life, so his mood became very sentimental and pessimistic. The entire collection of novels seems to be made up of sentimental youth and countless teardrops, and has great appeal. The nature of the autobiography more truly reflects the ideological status of intellectuals looking for a way out after the "May Fourth Movement", and it also bears the mark of the ideological changes during the ebb of the "May Fourth Movement". It expresses the dilemma that young people like her face in the context of the times, the huge conflict between thought, life, love and reality, and the irresolvable sadness in their hearts.

"The Story of Hulan River" is an autobiographical novel by Xiao Hong. It uses Xiao Hong's own childhood life as a clue to recall various characters and life scenes in his hometown, and depicts the social scene and human emotions of Hulan River, a small town in the northeastern border. It is an important work of Xiao Hong's later period. With deep emotions, the author depicts the ignorance, backwardness, numbness, and absurd mental state of the people in the small town, and reveals the imprisonment and harm of the old society's feudal bad habits and backward ideas to the people. The light and smart words reveal a sense of helplessness and sadness. This book is based on the 1947 edition of Shanghai Huanxing Bookstore, retaining the characteristics of the times and ensuring the authenticity of the work.

This youth story took place in the summer of 2008. It was even more unforgettable because of the Beijing Olympics and the Wenchuan earthquake. In the story, love has twists and turns and friendship is difficult. Compared with those children who have gone through adolescence smoothly, the protagonist of the story can be described as "competent". Is it because young people who engage in art must "make", or is it due to their character and circumstances? The secrets are in the stories.

Yangzi, a boy from a small southern town, was originally a good boy. His father worked hard for half his life and accumulated considerable wealth. He also brought other women and children into the family, which distorted his outlook on life. He and other rich second-generation children from small towns eat, drink and have fun, without learning or skills. As an adult, he inherited his father's business. As his career improved, he followed his father's example of supporting other women outside of marriage. Later, he accidentally fell into a gambling vortex, owed huge debts, and finally hid in his hometown. When he was on the verge of despair, he was rescued by two urban management officials. He got out of the quagmire on his own, and finally returned to the small town to start his family business again.

The more I understand what happiness is, the more I enjoy eating, chatting, and quarreling with my family. The annual happiness book that is wildly sought after by book reviewers, bookstore owners, and readers. Nearly 20 heavyweight European and American media have wildly recommended it: The Times, Publishers Weekly, Book List, Kirkus Reviews, The Observer, etc. After reading Professor Chandra's story, you will cherish the normal days of noisy family life even more. Chandra is a well-known British economics professor and a strange old man. For him, today should have been a glorious day. The Nobel Prize in Economics is about to be announced. He is the most promising person to win, but life seems to have played a big joke on him: he was defeated in the cheers and was hit by a bicycle and entered the hospital... Busy work and weird and bossy personality made Professor Chandra drift away from his wife and children. At this difficult time in his life, with no one around him, he felt lonely as never before.

"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. "Camel Xiangzi" is one of the most outstanding works in China in the 1930s. It established Lao She's important position in the history of modern Chinese literature. "Camel Xiangzi" is his personal and important work in the history of modern Chinese literature.