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Adria's father is engaged in antique trading and his whereabouts are mysterious when outside. At home, he spends all day in his study playing with antiques. The study full of rare treasures is Adria's base for eavesdropping on family secrets. What attracts him most is a Storioni violin made in the 18th century. He secretly lent the priceless violin to a friend, but received the bad news that his father died unexpectedly and his body was separated. As time passed, the truth gradually seeped out of the study, and Adria's story unfolded like a long scroll. The novel is based on Adria's life memories, with scenes flashing back across centuries of European history: the Italian violin town of Cremona, the Spanish Inquisition, Rome before and after World War I, monasteries across Europe, Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps, Barcelona in different periods... What remains unchanged is sin, redemption, revenge, love and loneliness.

Short stories play an important role in Maugham's creation. Anthony Burgess once commented that he wrote "the best short stories in English literature." His novels such as "The Shackles of Humanity" and "The Knife's Edge" made Maugham famous all over the world, while his short stories won him more readers and became a global phenomenon with his exquisite skills in weaving stories and his keen insight into human nature and social life. In 1951, Maugham published a four-volume collection of short stories, including a total of 91 stories. He personally determined the titles and order, and wrote a preface for each volume. In 1963, Penguin Press launched a new edition based on this, and it has since been recognized as the standard edition and has been reprinted many times. This book is translated from the 2002 Penguin edition of the complete works. There are many Chinese translations of Maugham's works, and most of his short stories are published in selected collections. The "Complete Collection of Somerset Maugham's Short Stories" (four volumes) planned to be launched this time will reproduce the full picture of Maugham's short stories in wonderful translations. This book is the second volume.

The story was written from the 1950s and 1960s to the end of the century, describing how the Hang family experienced the bloody war of resistance against Japan and then ushered in the turbulent historical period of the Cultural Revolution, reflecting the social reality at that time. The Hang family has gone through various tests, showing unprecedented tenacity and independent personality in pursuit of freedom. The novel exudes a rich flavor of tea culture. The story takes place in Hangzhou, the capital of green tea. Hang Jiuzhai, the descendant of Wangyou Tea House, was a tea merchant in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Qing Dynasty. He was elegant and elegant, but had trouble managing money and business. He eventually died on the smoke couch of a woman with fireworks. The next generation of tea master is called Hang Tianzui. He grew up in the era when the feudal dynasty completely collapsed and the Republic of China was born. He is always intertwined with the contradiction between decadence and hard work. He is knowledgeable, talented, passionate, and ambitious, but he is indecisive. He loves his boyfriend, his wife, his concubines, and his children... In the end, he is so "loved" that he feels lost and has no choice but to escape to Buddhism. The three sons and two daughters born to Hang Tianzui experienced a broader era. They participated in the whole process of the rise and fall of Hua Cha in various capacities and in different ways. During this period, the fate of the nation, family and individuals were complicated and ups and downs. The rise and fall of tea houses were closely linked to the rise and fall of Chinese tea over the past century. The novel therefore outlines a long scroll of the fate of Chinese tea people in recent and modern history.

"The Tea Man Trilogy" is China's first full-length novel that reflects tea culture. It has won the Mao Dun Literature Award and the "Five One Project" Award of the Central Propaganda Department. It includes three novels: "There Are Beautiful Trees in the South", "The Nightless Marquis" and "Building Grass into a City". "There is Jiamu in the South" is the first part of the "Tea Man Trilogy". Hangzhou, the capital of green tea, the owner of Wangyou Tea House, Hang Jiuzhai, was a tea merchant in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Qing Dynasty. He was elegant and elegant, but had trouble managing money and business. He eventually died on the smoke couch of a woman with fireworks. Hang Tianzui, the next generation of tea master, grew up in the era when the feudal dynasty completely collapsed and the Republic of China was born. He was always intertwined with the contradiction between decadence and hard work. He was knowledgeable, talented, passionate, and ambitious, but he was indecisive. Amidst all kinds of love entanglements, he had no choice but to escape to Buddhism. The third generation of the Hang family, represented by Hang Jiahe, has experienced a broader era. They have participated in the rise and fall of Hua Tea in various capacities and in different ways. The fate of the nation, family and individuals is complicated and ups and downs. The novel therefore outlines a long scroll of the fate of Chinese tea people in modern history. "The Nightless Lord" is the second part of the "Tea Man Trilogy". The novel takes the Anti-Japanese War as the background and reflects the fate of various characters of the Hang family, a tea family rooted in Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, in this turbulent era: Shen Luai, Hang Jiacao and other Hang family women died tragically under the iron heel of the Japanese invaders; Ji Cao, Hang Yi, Hang Han and Wangyou, as the new generation of Hang family children, participated in the great Anti-Japanese War. Some died in the war, while others insisted on building the Chinese tea industry for the future after victory. As a descendant of a tea family, Hang Jiahe endured huge and unimaginable disasters during the long war years, showing the immortal character of a Chinese tea man. The novel focuses on depicting the cultural form in the context of the war, showing the profound power of Chinese tea culture as an integral part of the Chinese national spirit in the historical context of that time. While narrating the story, the novel also describes the bumpy development history of my country's tea industry during this period. The magnificent historical narrative and delicate description of the characters and plots bring readers a pleasant reading experience. "Building Grass into a City" is the second part of the "Tea Man Trilogy". The story was written from the 1950s and 1960s to the end of the century, describing how the Hang family experienced the bloody war of resistance against Japan and then ushered in the turbulent historical period of the Cultural Revolution, reflecting the social reality at that time. The Hang family has gone through various tests, showing unprecedented tenacity and independent personality in pursuit of freedom. The novel exudes a rich flavor of tea culture. The story takes place in Hangzhou, the capital of green tea. Hang Jiuzhai, the descendant of Wangyou Tea House, was a tea merchant in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Qing Dynasty. He was elegant and elegant, but had trouble managing money and business. He eventually died on the smoke couch of a woman with fireworks. The next generation of tea master is called Hang Tianzui. He grew up in the era when the feudal dynasty completely collapsed and the Republic of China was born. He is always intertwined with the contradiction between decadence and hard work. He is knowledgeable, talented, passionate, and ambitious, but he is indecisive. He loves his boyfriend, his wife, his concubines, and his children... In the end, he is so "loved" that he feels lost and has no choice but to escape to Buddhism. The three sons and two daughters born to Hang Tianzui experienced a broader era. They participated in the whole process of the rise and fall of Hua Cha in various capacities and in different ways. During this period, the fate of the nation, family and individuals were complicated and ups and downs. The rise and fall of tea houses were closely linked to the rise and fall of Chinese tea over the past century. The novel therefore outlines a long scroll of the fate of Chinese tea people in recent and modern history.

The novel takes the Anti-Japanese War as the background and reflects the fate of various characters of the Hang family, a tea family rooted in Hangzhou in the south of the Yangtze River, in this turbulent era: Shen Luai, Hang Jiacao and other Hang family women died tragically under the iron heel of the Japanese invaders; Ji Cao, Hang Yi, Hang Han and Wangyou, as the new generation of Hang family children, participated in the great Anti-Japanese War. Some died in the war, while others insisted on building the Chinese tea industry for the future after victory. As a descendant of a tea family, Hang Jiahe endured huge and unimaginable disasters during the long war years, showing the immortal character of a Chinese tea man. The novel focuses on depicting the cultural form in the context of the war, showing the profound power of Chinese tea culture as an integral part of the Chinese national spirit in the historical context of that time. While narrating the story, the novel also describes the bumpy development history of my country's tea industry during this period. The magnificent historical narrative and delicate description of the characters and plots bring readers a pleasant reading experience.

It has been adapted into a TV series of the same name, "There Are Good Woods in the South", starring Cheng Qian, Xu Fan, Wu Gang, Zhao Kui'e, He Bing, Xiao Rongsheng and others. Hangzhou, the capital of green tea, the owner of Wangyou Tea House, Hang Jiuzhai, was a tea merchant in the south of the Yangtze River in the late Qing Dynasty. He was elegant and elegant, but had trouble managing money and business. He eventually died on the smoke couch of a woman with fireworks. Hang Tianzui, the next generation of tea master, grew up in the era when the feudal dynasty completely collapsed and the Republic of China was born. He was always intertwined with the contradiction between decadence and hard work. He was knowledgeable, talented, passionate, and ambitious, but he was indecisive. Amidst all kinds of love entanglements, he had no choice but to escape to Buddhism. The third generation of the Hang family, represented by Hang Jiahe, has experienced a broader era. They have participated in the rise and fall of Hua Tea in various capacities and in different ways. The fate of the nation, family and individuals is complicated and ups and downs. The novel therefore outlines a long scroll of the fate of Chinese tea people in modern history.

Lu Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, received guidance in the fairy world, and descended to earth with the seven immortals to promote good and eliminate evil. He successively rehabilitated famous wronged souls such as Xi Shi, Yang Yuhuan, and Yue Fei, and gained a perfect love with Bai Mudan. The author has been engaged in drama work for a long time, and the books are quite dramatic, demonstrating the positive energy of supporting justice, punishing evil and promoting good.

Young Ma Guang has characteristics that are incompatible with his surroundings. What he wants to create is a self that is not assimilated. His destiny changed because of reading, and he also had thoughts because of reading. This free soul, brought alive by knowledge, struggles and breaks through again and again in the shackles of reality, accompanied by the confusion of love and the collapse of ideals. To contend with the world or to reconcile with the world is undoubtedly an unanswerable question. How to reconcile with the world is a life proposition that extends from Ma Guang to every individual.

"The whirling ocean, the beautiful island. Don't your memories count?" Kyoto is a poem, and Taipei is a novel. The writer traveled between the two cities, looking for a place where spirit and memory can rest: on one side is the ancient capital that remains unchanged and carries memories in Kawabata Yasunari's works, and on the other is his hometown of Taipei, which is constantly erasing history and memory. Using a map from the Japanese occupation period, the narrator wanders through the streets of Taipei at the end of the century. The only sights he sees are the ruins and fractures left by urban evolution and construction. The relics of memory are disappearing, and both the collective and the individual are suffering from historical amnesia. "Ancient Capital" is Zhu Tianxin's island fable, which includes five short stories and short stories. Like Benjamin's "New Angel" in Klee's paintings, she stares at the ruins of history, stops time, and awakens the dead, but is blown step by step into the future by the wind of the times. This book was selected as one of the "Top 100 Chinese Novels of the 20th Century" by Asia Weekly and is a classic of contemporary Chinese literature.

The story takes place in the early autumn of 2015. With the support of newspaper boss Huang Jingying, Jin Qingshuo, a cutting-edge reporter from Breeze Newspaper in a certain city, began to publish a series of reports in the daily Breeze Evening News with the title "Raising the White Curtain". The opening chapter "Children "Picked" out of thin air" was shocking and pointed at the city's time-honored public tertiary-level general hospital with a history of more than 140 years. This report stirred up waves like a stone, not only pushing the hospital into an embarrassing situation, but also breaking the hard-won peaceful life of Ma Fuping's family. The story starts with many difficult events that happened in one day, and peels off the cocoons. It not only shows the helplessness of patients, the helplessness of family members, and the pressure and hardship of medical staff, but also unhesitatingly reveals the contradictions and scars between doctors and patients, analyzes the bloody reality, and praises the angels in white who work hard to save patients on the front line. It praises justice, the warmth and brilliance of human nature, and lashes out against ugliness.

This is an extraordinary novel about a courageous young woman who is torn apart by loneliness, time, and finally a tsunami. Ruth picked up a diary like a "drift bottle" on the coast, which contained hopes and dreams. Reading page by page, she discovered that everything could be traced back to a legendary story written by a little Japanese girl Nao Yasutani about herself and her 104-year-old great-grandmother in the maid restaurant. This diary was taken away by the waves after the tsunami, and eventually traveled across the ocean to Canada, which is far away on the other side of the ocean. In the diary, a beautiful summer spent by Nao and her grandmother at the beach is slowly unfolded. Nao is like a modern Holden Caulfield. With her magnanimous and witty tone of voice, she covers youth, pop culture, family, suicide, 911, Zen, kamikazes... In the eyes of a 16-year-old girl.

"Gulliver's Travels" is the masterpiece of Swift, the outstanding British political commentator and satirical novelist in the 18th century, and a great satirical novel in the history of world literature. The novel uses Captain Gulliver's voice to narrate his experience of traveling around the Lilliputian, Adult, Flying Island and Houyhnhnm countries. The author uses magical imagination, exaggerated means, and allegorical writing to criticize the British political system, especially the corruption, incompetence, viciousness, debauchery, greed, and arrogance of the ruling class.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Communist Party of China led the anti-Japanese army and civilians in the Jizhong Plain area to fight to the death against Japanese aggressors and traitors. Ma Ying, a young Eighth Route Army cadre, was ordered to return to his hometown of Xiaojia Town to mobilize the masses and organize an anti-Japanese team. The traitors Yang Baishun, Liu Zhongzheng and Japanese captain Nakamura conspired to provoke the people to kill each other, and a bloody massacre was about to break out...

"Bitter Cauliflower" is set in the rural areas of Kunyu Mountain in Shandong Province. It describes how the local people under the leadership of the Communist Party fought against Japanese invaders, traitors, and feudal forces during the Anti-Japanese War. Here, there are couples who both suffered and refused to give in until death; there are rural women who would rather sacrifice their husbands in front of the enemy to save the Eighth Route Army cadres. These people who fought bravely went through a long and arduous process and finally won the final victory.

"How was your summer?" " Is the author's third collection of short stories, including 8 works. As the most representative female writer in the Korean literary world, Kim Ae-ran has won the love of a large number of readers, largely due to the power of the protagonist of the work. Most of the various characters in the book are faced with desperate situations, nakedly exposed to reality, but trying to find records of hard work with even slimmer hope. What is particularly worth mentioning is that six of the articles in this book are all about young women in their 30s as protagonists, describing the current psychological state of Korean women in this age group in terms of love, friendship, and self.

There was a squire in La Mancha, Spain, who loved chivalric novels and read them all day long without any poems in his hands. Finally, he lost his mind after reading. He actually wanted to be a knight errant, hoe the strong and help the weak, act chivalrously, and conquer the world. He called himself Don Quixote, and persuaded a farmer in the village to be his attendant. He rode a horse and held a spear, and embarked on an adventure. Don Quixote's mind was filled with the people and things in the book of chivalry, so in his eyes, prostitutes were ladies and inns were castles. He fought with windmills, regarded sheep as an army, and made many jokes and made a fool of himself. He fought and lost again and again, and persisted in his ideals until he died. Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza are two masters and servants. One is tall and the other is short, one is thin and the other is fat. One pursues ideals and the other is very realistic. The two form a strong contrast, producing a strong comic effect and symbolizing the duality of human beings: idealism and realism. Therefore, the work has universal and eternal significance.

I heard that some books can change people's lives. Khan Publishing House is struggling with its top author: the first five volumes of the best-selling masterpiece "The Mystery of the Spiral" have become popular all over the world, but the manuscript of the sixth volume has not yet been found. Editor David was ordered to leave the busy life in Madrid and go to find this writer who never showed up. The only clues David has are: (1) the name of a remote town on the manuscript package; (2) the author's right hand has six fingers; (3) the handwriting shows that he is left-handed; (4) the typewriter model he uses. There are many obstacles in the journey of urging the manuscript. When all the clues come to nothing, the secret hidden from his wife can no longer be hidden. More than one person's fate was completely changed by a novel.

This book is Hunter S. Thompson's debut novel. It describes an aspiring journalist who gradually sinks and gets lost in the alcohol and idleness of the Caribbean. Finally, he leaves the Caribbean with a broken American dream and endless regrets. The book was published thirty years later and won multiple book awards in the United States. The film of the same name, starring Hunter Thompson's protégé Johnny Depp, is currently being screened in Europe and the United States and is a popular candidate for the 2012 Oscars.

"Lonely Seventeen" contains many of Bai Xianyong's early and middle short stories. Bai Xianyong's early novels can be divided into two categories: one is novels that are more or less rewritten based on his own personal experience: "Grandma Jin," "Let's Go to Look at the Chrysanthemums", "Sister-in-law Yuqing", and "The Lonely Seventeen Years Old", which to some extent reveal the author's childhood and teenage self. The second category has a heavy fantasy component. The most obvious example is "Youth". In addition, "Thunder", "Black Rainbow", "Little Indian Spring", and "The Hand Hidden in the Pocket" are also products of fantasy to some extent. Xia Zhiqing believes that Bai Xianyong is a genius among contemporary Chinese short story novelists. Since the May Fourth Movement, there are only five or six people who can rival him in artistic achievements, from Lu Xun to Zhang Ailing.

The zoo is short of money and cannot afford to keep the penguins, so it is open to the public for adoption. On the day of adoption, Victor took Misha the penguin home. Misha not only had congenital heart disease, but also suffered from depression. Victor dreams of becoming a writer, but has never been able to write a finished work. In order to support himself and Misha, he accepted a strange job, writing obituaries of political and business celebrities for newspapers. The pay was well-paid, but strangely, he needed to write it before his death. Although Victor can never become a real writer... Life seems to be getting better gradually. Gradually, he discovered that this job was not simple at all, and even very dangerous. As obituaries that seemed to predict death were published one after another, the short-term happiness turned into confusion and panic, and Victor found that he had also become the protagonist of the obituaries. Where is the killer? Who is the mastermind? The shadow of death looms step by step. In order to protect Misha and Sonia, he needs to make some compromises and sacrifices.

"He", who comes from a poor family and has a handsome appearance, is a bright and promising young man in the family. Fortunately, he was sponsored by his uncle to come to Shanghai and study at St. John's University where rich families gather. But soon, his uncle's salt bureau was closed down, and he fell into trouble after losing his source of income. His female classmate Ai MoLi favors him and invites him to live in the garden house of his cousin Tom, but he has a soft spot for Tom's wife Jue'er because of a small white portrait... The novel uses Li Shangyin's seven-rhythm "Jin Se" as the axis, narrating the mental journey of a frail scholar in the great era, showing the protagonist's fate of drifting with the tide in the world, ups and downs throughout his life, and using it to penetrate into the complex spiritual world of intellectuals. Fan Qian was born in Shanghai in 1953. Master of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute, artist and writer. He has published novels "The Wrong Knock on Heaven's Door", "Antique Street", "Peach", "Wind and Wind", "Insomniac Club", "White House Blue Bottle", short story collections "San Francisco Kiss", "Hell", etc.

The prequel to the Booker Prize-winning masterpiece "The English Patient". Once you break out of the cocoon you have made, you will burst out with the power to conquer everything. Booker Prize 50th Anniversary Grand Prize - The work that the Golden Booker Prize winner Ong Dajie devoted ten years to polishing won the CBC Canadian Reading Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. Open "Wearing Lion's Skin", break out of the cocoon you made, and explode your own power! "In Lion's Skin" makes little people become the protagonists of the big era. The selected text is collected at the landmark next to the Bloor Street Viaduct in Toronto. It is the starting point of the Canadian literary map and the city's memory of the times. The title of the book comes from the ancient Babylonian heroic epic "Epic of Gilgamesh": Joy will be ricketed by sorrow. When you return to the dust, I will grow long hair for you. I will wear a lion's skin and wander in the wilderness. When a silent person puts on a lion's skin, he can break out of his cocoon and speak freely. Patrick, who was born in a remote forest area, came alone to Toronto, the land of dreams and opportunities, to make a living. He blasted tunnels under Lake Ontario in North America, searched for missing millionaires for the police, and stayed with nameless little people all day long. His story is destined to be sewn into the corners of history, but he really exists. He fell in love; he established friendship with a thief in prison; and even one day, he sneaked into the water plant to confront the director Yingwu who had a great future. History is chaotic, but he rushes to find order for his life in every episode of his life. Then, choose Tell.

"Wanderer" includes five novels written by Taiwanese novelist Zhu Tianxin before and after his father's death, plus an essay "The Author and Me". The writing took nearly three years from the end of 1997 to the late autumn of 2000. This is a book of death, and it was death that directly initiated this writing. The daughter's grief turned into a wandering that was constantly bifurcated, thinking and reality were weightless: a strange and lost journey along the Mediterranean coast, building a paradise-like town in a dream, walking on the Tinker Bell Galaxy Railway in the movie, falling into the cave of childhood memories on the island, and accompanying her father to prune roses... The dead left like migratory birds, and the living were left behind and stayed on the ground, walking step by step, traveling to the ends of the world to find the possible habitat of the deceased. The five novels are like a movement with an ups and down rhythm, a dream with flashbacks, connected into a dense long structure.

The novel is set in the United States in the 1990s. Because of a specious remark, Coleman, a university professor who is over 70 years old, was accused of being a "racist". After the ensuing forced resignation and the death of his wife, Coleman, who was taking the blame, broke the news of his love affair with the young female cleaner Fonya. All these incidents made Coleman hated by all parties, including Faunia's husband, a disabled Vietnam veteran. Eventually Coleman was cornered by rumors, anonymous letters and stalkers. Race, identity, individual and era, chance and fate, the novel is filled with conflicts and collisions of various elements. In Coleman's continuous "fall", the interspersed fragments intertwined with the main plot reveal that Coleman is not a Jew as he has always claimed, but a light-skinned black man; Faunya is not illiterate... These make the conflicts and collisions in the novel more three-dimensional, and the plot becomes more complicated and confusing.

[Exclusive first release on WeChat Reading, exclusive customized version] 1990-2018 was a great era of great changes in China in the past century. Hundreds of millions of Chinese people worked hard to realize the common dream of a better life. Countless new things sprouted in it. Urbanization transformed with each passing day. The wave of commercialization surged forward, creating a Chinese miracle that shocked the world. The trend of the times pushes some lucky people to the top of the wave, and ruthlessly knocks some people to the bottom. During this period, there were laughter, tears, calculations, dedication, success, and failure... All of these came together to form our era. Wang Qiang, a well-known new commercial novel writer, carefully created the trilogy of million-word novels "Our Time" to remember the glory and dreams of this era, hoping that we can see clearly where we come from, and then choose where to go. Between the lines of the novel are warm memories that resonate with each other in the past thirty years. There is also a group of lovely and respectable vivid characters. Their love, hate, joy and sorrow, and the ups and downs of fate, I believe they will make you feel familiar and unforgettable.

"On the Road" tells the story of a group of young people who grew up after World War II in the 1940s and 1950s, traveling across the American continent several times on road trips. They moved forward, drinking heavily, listening to jazz, talking about Zen, life, and ideals. It seems absurd, but in fact it is a way to express oneself and pursue spiritual freedom.

K. Was a land surveyor employed by the castle. When he arrived at the village below the castle and wanted to stay overnight in the village, he was given a cold reception because he did not have a stay permit from the castle. In order to confirm his appointment by the castle, K. Tried every means to get close to the castle. But facing the castle with strict management system and the villagers who abide by the rules, K. Felt very helpless. It seemed that every step forward would block a road to the castle. Although the castle is close at hand, it is beyond K.'S reach...

Douban's high-scoring Japanese drama original novel allows you to experience every detail of your daily life, and it all tastes real. Shibukawa, a young man who just wanted to live his life, came to his grandfather's house with an ulterior motive. Shibukawa has had a deep quarrel with his family since he was a child. Coupled with the strict family rules, his life has been like a year. It wasn't until the fierce-looking Liu Yanlong came to visit that everything changed. The fierce-looking Liu Yan uses the cheapest ingredients to make home-cooked dishes that make everyone feel happy. Shibukawa also gradually understood that there is no need to pursue a luxurious life blindly. Even simple home-cooked meals can be delicious as long as you put effort into it. Even in the face of adversity, we must continue to love life and cook every meal with heart. The bond between family members is like three meals a day. Although it is plain, it can give people warmth when needed. That is the most ordinary and sincere happiness. All kinds of things in the world are hidden in a vegetable or a meal. No matter how difficult the moment is, as long as you are still looking forward to the next meal, you will be able to go on. I'm ready to start this chivalrous meal!

The original novel of the Oscar-winning film "Legends of the Fall" (also known as "The Last Days"), co-starring actor Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt; the "contemporary Hemingway" and the legendary work of the tough guy writer Jim Harrison, a family tragedy that spans half a century, and a magnificent and vast epic of the American West! "Legends of Autumn" is the representative work of American writer Jim Harrison and is recognized as a classic novella in the history of American literature. Most of Jim Harrison's novellas are published in the form of a trilogy. "Legends of the Autumn" includes three novellas: "Revenge", "The Solo Showman" and "Legends of the Autumn". "Legends of the Autumn" is a "historical legend" created by Harrison through artistic processing based on the diary left by his wife's grandfather: In the vast state of Montana, the three sons of Colonel Ludlow's family resolutely decided to participate in "World War I" for the sake of justice in the world. The younger brother Samuel unfortunately died, and the second brother Tristan was so distraught that he almost went crazy. After the war, Tristan married Susanna, but left home a few months after the marriage. The miserable Susanna eventually married her eldest brother Alfred. A few years later, Tristan finally returned to Montana. The love-hate entanglement between father and son continued, and everything had a sense of tragic fate.

The representative work of Richard Yates, "the writer among writers", "the great writer in the age of anxiety" and the author of "Revolutionary Road". "Eleven Kinds of Loneliness" describes the lives of ordinary New Yorkers in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II in a cold way. It writes about eleven kinds of lonely lives. The protagonists are all people who lack security and live unsatisfactory lives: fired white-collar workers in Manhattan office buildings, people with outstanding imaginations A taxi driver, a young man who has been frustrated many times but wants to be a writer, a man and a woman who are about to get married but are extremely confused, an eccentric old teacher, a newly transferred primary school student, a tuberculosis patient, an old and sick wife, a jazz pianist, a depressed military officer and a retired soldier, etc. Yates writes about the ordinary lives of ordinary people, describing their loneliness, loss and despair. He himself once said: "If there is any theme in my works, I think there is only one simple one: people are lonely, no one can escape, and this is their tragedy."

The representative work of Richard Yates, "the writer among writers", "the great writer in the age of anxiety" and the author of "Revolutionary Road". The "Good School" of the title is a fictional Connecticut preparatory high school. The story takes place in the early 1940s. Boys in a "good school" must join the army immediately after graduation. Teachers have mixed feelings about their profession and the school they attend. Although this is a school, as one teacher in the book said, it "contains huge potential energy". This is true for students and teachers. In some ways, this book continues a theme explored in Revolutionary Road: the fragility of marriage. The husband is disabled, the wife is cheating on her, the husband wants to commit suicide, but he is unable to do so. The "good school" in the title is undoubtedly the biggest irony of the entire book, and it makes people sigh after reading it. This book is one of the few works written by Richard Yates that is gentle and full of compassion. The protagonist's growth background and experience in the novel also overlap with Yates himself. The sad and restrained emotions in it are very attractive.

The representative work of Richard Yates, "the writer among writers", "the great writer in the age of anxiety" and the author of "Revolutionary Road". Michael Davenport was a young man who retired from the European battlefields of World War II. He was ambitious and dreamed of becoming a poet and playwright. He is aloof, lives for art, and does not want to get involved with his wife's money, but he still has to write articles for a business magazine to maintain his hobby of writing poetry. His wife Lucy is extremely rich, but she never knows what she wants. She just feels that others seem to be happier than her. As time went by, the couple's anxiety grew as they watched others achieve success while they themselves remained unknown. Their once happy lives are being swallowed up by adultery and isolation, and the monotony they thought they had escaped lingers like a nightmare. In this novel, Yates once again chose the broken American dream, which he is best at, as his theme. He used the heavy hammer of reality to smash the innocence of the dream, bringing an incomparable dull pain, making people feel the sentimentality of the times and personal difficulties when reading.

They were all born in E County, of different ages and with different personalities. The only thing they have in common is that they want to escape this place far away. The boy lives on his uncle's farm. He had just lost his mother, had no friends, and his only hobby was comics. He always wears a mask and a cape, as if he can become Superman and be further away from reality. The hockey brothers came to the big city to work hard. They thought they would win the world by winning every game, but they lost their lives overnight. A fire destroyed the orphanage, but it could not destroy the nun's determination. She walked into the never-ending winter night with her fourteen children and a wounded heart. In E County, everyone has had dreams, worked hard for their dreams, and eventually returned to their hometown to spend the rest of their lives in memories. New life, new memories, begin again and again, in this land that seems to never tire.

"Speak, Room" is a novel that describes the survival of contemporary professional women. It expresses the pressure, pain, anxiety and cry that professional women in the period of social transformation bear. After female reporter Duo Mi was fired from the newspaper, she left Beijing to find a job elsewhere and lived with her girlfriend Nan Hong. Nan Hong kept telling Duomi her tortuous experience of breaking into Shenzhen, while Duomi kept recalling her fragmented life and career while listening. Duomi failed to find a job in Shenzhen and returned to the capital. The entire novel starts from the extremely delicate narration of physical feelings and goes straight to the deepest soul of contemporary women. Lin Bai is one of the most important writers of contemporary Chinese women's experience. Her novels are unique and passionate, and her language is free and enchanting. Her writing practice over the years has been vindicating hidden experiences and providing new literary evidence for the legitimate status of personal life history in writing. Lin Bai made a sensation in the literary world with his novel "One Man's War". "Speak, Room" is her second novel. According to the writing curve of ordinary writers, the first novel is interesting, and most of the subsequent works go downhill. But Lin Bai is not like this. She still shocks the hearts of readers with her unique "personal" writing style and female perspective, supplemented by multi-linear, poker-like plot arrangements, and a blade-like language style. "Speak, Room" can be said to be a classic in Lindbergh's creative pedigree. It also echoes the ever-present topic of the living conditions of women in today's society. It is a masterpiece of great weight.

The protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye" is Holden, a sixteen-year-old middle school student who was born in a middle-class family in New York. His parents and teachers wanted him to study hard so that he could stand out in the future, but all he did in school all day long was talk about alcohol and women. He couldn't understand everything around him, had no intention of studying, and was always punished. When he was expelled for the fourth time, Holden did not go home and wandered alone in New York for a day and two nights. He finally collapsed completely and lay down in a mental hospital.

"Nine Stories" collects nine short stories Salinger published in The New Yorker. Each story is self-contained and interconnected, describing the "love and filth" of the postwar generation of young people in Salinger's eyes. In the story, there are innocent and desperate young people, there are precocious and confused children, and there are mothers who struggle to integrate into their children's hearts... Salinger allows the young people, children and immature adults in his novels to experience or see love, desire for love, death, despair and madness, showing the flashes and dilemmas of love and beauty in reality, revealing the fetters and drags of worldly interpersonal relationships on people, telling the importance of understanding life, and exploring and pursuing the liberation of the soul. Salinger, the master of literature, told the truth of life in dense words that were plain, calm, calm, but containing huge energy.

The protagonist of "The Catcher in the Rye" is Holden, a sixteen-year-old middle school student who was born in a middle-class family in New York. His parents and teachers wanted him to study hard so that he could stand out in the future, but all he did in school all day long was talk about alcohol and women. He couldn't understand everything around him, had no intention of studying, and was always punished. When he was expelled for the fourth time, Holden did not go home and wandered alone in New York for a day and two nights. He finally collapsed completely and lay down in a mental hospital.

Franny and Zooey are the seventh brother and sister of the Glass family. Zooey, who has a rebellious personality, is five years older than Franny. He has been tired of his eldest brother Seymour and second brother Buddy who are more than ten years older than him since he was a child. He has a lot of religious and philosophical books to read to him. When he grew up, he ignored the opposition of his family and became an actor. Franny is a college student who passes out in the middle of a date with her boyfriend in a restaurant and lies at home with a nervous breakdown. The novel develops, climaxes, and ends in the dialogue between Franny and Zooey, exploring faith and spiritual crises.

This is a biographical novel that tells the story of an ordinary woman pursuing happiness and changing her destiny. It is an indisputable fact in today's society that it is difficult for women to remarry after being divorced and widowed. The heroine ended many years of unhappy marriage and searched for a good match with passion... After encountering the dilemma of being defrauded by a matchmaking agency, having no hope of finding a mate, and being homeless, she turned her attention to the other side of the ocean and began a difficult attempt. Without understanding English, she finally found an American lover with whom she was in love, and took her daughter to the other side of the ocean. In a strange country, she started a new round of struggle: learning English, taking the license exam, and finding a job... After repeated failures, she finally found a place to settle down in American society, and at the same time managed her hard-won transnational marriage into a warm and happy one. When everything came true and she and her beloved were planning a better future, a sudden accident took away her lover and destroyed everything that made her dream come true... Standing up from the grief, the protagonist wrote this unforgettable life of pursuing dreams to comfort her husband in heaven.

With sincere emotions and a lyrical style, the novel "North American Maple Love" by Shepherd Boy's Ballad presents the tumultuous life experiences of Chinese students who went to the other side of the ocean thirty years ago to pursue their dreams. It highlights the dimensions of a generation's spirit and soul, the fission of human nature, and the wandering destiny of a generation under the complex cultural background of a foreign country. Her narrative reaches the inner texture of life, shows the ups and downs of fate and the dissipation of youth, and also publicizes the unforgettable love and hatred, vicissitudes of life, and uninhibited inspirational feelings and beliefs.

The novel describes that after more than half a century of hard work, the world's scientific community finally saw the shadow of the dark matter "God's particle" that symbolizes the soul. The Chinese God Company has taken the lead in conquering the artificial intelligence technology that allows people to separate their minds from the body and implant it into another carrier to achieve immortality. Let the new connotation and extension of the human soul merge into the great tide of the era when everyone is realizing their dreams. The book is full of materialist dialectical reasoning, and the sincere ideas are supported by scientific practical capabilities.

This book is a long historical novel, based on true stories from ancient town chronicles. The land in southern Liaoning from Dalian to Xiuyan has many hot springs and is rich in jade. In recent years, it has been considered by experts to be the Qingqiu Kingdom in the "Book of Mountains and Seas". When the Revolution of 1911 was raging, the ancient town of Dalian, Piziwo, was still under the rule of the Japanese and was called "Guandong Prefecture". People in the ancient town believe in shamanism, which means "all things have animism and totem worship". The Pizi in the ancient town are shamanic totems. They are smart, naughty, and good at imitating human language and behavior, just like a beautiful and warm fairy tale world. In 1920, all Pizi were poisoned by the Japanese and became a mystery of the century. University lecturer Zhou Ye and Japanese student Yukiko came to the ancient town to jointly explore the cruel truth about the extinction of Pizi by the Japanese. As soon as the investigation began, Zhou Ye fell into emotional entanglements. He is admired by the Japanese female student Yukiko, but he has a soft spot for his first love girlfriend Zhaoyue, whom he met not long ago. The Russian girl Nadya also has a crush on him... The divorced Zhaoyue does not accept Zhou Ye's proposal and only agrees to be his lover, which makes Zhou Ye very troubled but has no solution. Zhaoyue is a descendant of Aixinjueluo. Her maternal grandmother is the "shaman" and is still in Piziwo today. Back in the ancient town, the anti-Japanese deeds of Ma Erye, Ju Shide and other ancestors made Zhou Ye passionate, and a bloody mystery of national courage and wisdom gradually unfolded. The shamanic world allows them to feel the original spiritual power of a nation and its profound enlightenment significance for today's world. From the magical mineral water in Pizi's nest, Zhou Ye found clues to Pizi's death. Xuezi's grandfather, Hegangchuan, was stationed in Piziwo at that time. When he was dying, he went to Dalian to pay homage to the Chinese woman he once admired - the late Zhou Ye's grandmother, Ju Jiaxian, and finally solved the final mystery. The Pizi that can change its nine tails at a specific moment shows that it is the legendary nine-tailed fox, which has hidden magical powers to avoid being hunted by humans. At this point, Qingqiu Country's three major products, hot springs, jade and nine-tailed fox, have been gathered together. After a change of heart, Zhao Yue chose to leave quietly. After her grandmother died, she returned to Piziwo from Dalian to take over the shaman's mission, determined to develop the traditional culture of her nation. Zhou Ye finally came together with Xuezi, and the descendants of the two nations finally untied the knot of blood feud for generations and welcomed a better new world together.

In 2007, Apple released the first-generation iPhone. This year, Zhang Siyu graduated as a Ph. D., Took the diamond ring he bought with his internship salary, and returned to China to propose to Cheng Yuexin. The two then set foot on the land of Silicon Valley. Lin Rui battles wits with the Jewish boss in the laboratory every day. His girlfriend, Zheng Yi, is in her first year of law school with high hopes. Hao Huihui is pregnant. She works in a Chinese supermarket while collecting and delivering express delivery, earning the price difference for her husband Hu Jinzhu. Hu Jinzhu returned to his hometown in glory as the vice chairman of the Silicon Valley Student Federation and was warmly received by the deputy governor. Standing in 2007, none of them knew that in the next ten years, they would experience financial crisis, identity troubles, unemployment, returnees, entrepreneurship, return to overseas, infidelity, divorce... Under the tide of the times, everyone will rise and fall with the tide.

"The Messenger" is the masterpiece of the famous British novelist and critic L. P. Hartley, who won the Heinemann Foundation Award of the Royal Society. The film based on the book was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. One long and hot summer, 12-year-old Leo was invited to the Branham Manor at the home of his classmate Marcus. Out of love and gratitude for Marcus's beautiful sister Marianne, the young and innocent Leo kindly acted as a secret messenger between Marianne and Farmer Ted, but was shocked to discover a rebellious love affair between them regardless of the class gap. In the dangerous game of hidden desires between adults, Leo gets deeper and deeper until the tragic ending of Marianne and Ted's story makes him lose his memory... The work inherits the profound tradition of British literature, has superb language art and narrative skills, and is full of mysteries, hints, metaphors and allusions.

The novel describes Raskolnikov, a poor college student who was poisoned by anarchist ideas and believed that he was a superman and could do whatever he wanted. Forced to make a living, he killed the old loan shark Alyona and her innocent sister Lizaveta, creating a murder that shocked the whole of Russia. After experiencing a painful confession, he finally surrendered under the persuasion of the Christian girl Sonia and was sentenced to exile in Siberia. The work focuses on depicting the protagonist's psychological changes after committing a crime and reveals the miserable life of the Russian lower class people.

This book is Coetzee's debut novel. The novel describes a figure who served the U. S. Government during the Vietnam War and worked hard to invent an invincible psychological warfare system. At the same time, his personal life was terrible. The man's whims are juxtaposed with an eighteenth-century Boer expedition report in the heart of Africa, showing two different ways of escaping from the world - one is intellectual exaggeration and psychological arrogance, the other is a life process full of vitality and wildness. The two reflect each other, thus providing readers with a feast of coldly poetic imagination and allegory.

"Fu" is a bold counterattack and subversion of the traditional British classic novel "Robinson Crusoe", and has a strong intertextuality with "Robinson Crusoe". Some see it as an allegory for the "South African condition". The novel uses Susan's personal experience of the event as an individual, using a small history to counter the grand history that has become an ideology. This not only helps us understand the multifaceted nature and complexity of history itself, but also shows a path to deconstruct history.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, undercurrents surged in the peaceful city of Liangzhou. Boxer Niu Guaiye encountered a strange thing. He could never have imagined that this seemingly coincidental encounter would change his fate and that of the entire Liangzhou martial arts world. As a result, a mysterious organization quietly emerged; a group of martial arts masters with unique skills appeared one by one; a conspiracy that was leaked ended in farce; a pursuit that spanned thousands of miles evolved into a deep-seated love and hate... In the gap of historical turmoil, we saw the ancient northwest city of Liangzhou a hundred years ago. In that remote borderland, countless vague past events gradually became clear.

For hundreds of years, the Pacific wind has been blowing slowly on Macau Island, but nothing has changed. But a wind at the last moment of the 20th century blew the island of Macau back to the embrace of the motherland, and also changed the fate of Mai Siyu, a daughter of the Dan family. From LED to smart city construction, she joined hands with high technology to trigger a revolution in the lighting industry. Who can win in the fierce competition between young entrepreneurs and the "Uncles" who protect their homeland, and what role will they play in the construction and transformation? Business rivals are attacking one after another, and international giants are eyeing them. How can Mai Siyu and Huang Zijian break out of the encirclement? How did the rich second generation Ouyang Xiaojiang bottom out and make a successful comeback? How does Mai Sihua, a second-year middle school boy, counterattack the elites of the investment community? Childhood sweethearts, happy enemies obsessed with each other... Where will their love go? Various perspectives and emotions such as entrepreneurship, business war, and people's livelihood have opened up a turbulent and passionate era, and also composed a hymn of ordinary people's struggle in the new era.

The full-length novel "The Legend of Ma Dianxuan" tells the story of Ma Dianxuan's legendary life as he grew up to become an underground communist party. It tells the painful life experience of a protagonist in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, and shaped the lives of Bian Yongfu, Zhao Duier, Ma Youshi, Ma Dianxuan, Ren Qian, Wang Zhongjia and Liu Ming. , Liu Yusheng, Riba Buddha, Ma Fushan, Xiao Huanzhang, Zhang Yingjie, Wang Deyi, Nian Danzeng, Guo Yulan, Qian Pingping and many other vivid little people showed their revolutionary spirit of heroic sacrifice in resisting Japan and saving the country, and showed the folk style of Gansu in modern China.