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This book selects three classic works by Xiao Hong, a talented female writer from China, "The Legend of Hulan River", "The Field of Life and Death" and "March in a Small Town". They are her representative works, famous works and posthumous works respectively, forming Xiao Hong's trilogy. "The Story of Hulan River" is Xiao Hong's later masterpiece. 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. The writer has created the pinnacle of her "memory style" with her skillful recall skills, lyrical prose style, and heavy yet light writing style. "The Field of Life and Death" is the pinnacle of Xiao Hong's early creation. This work established Xiao Hong's status as an anti-Japanese writer and made her one of the most eye-catching writers in the 1930s. In particular, Lu Xun wrote the preface and Hu Feng wrote the afterword, which made "The Field of Life and Death" a classic text of the national spirit of the era. "March in Small Town" is Xiao Hong's last work. The work describes the beautiful 19-year-old Aunt Cui who silently loves her elder brother and yearns for a love that was impossible in that feudal secular era. It is still March in the small town and only the eldest brother misses Aunt Cui...

The story took place on the eve of the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. The Yao family and the Zhang family are well-known silk industry tycoons in Nancheng. They are fighting endlessly for the position of being the leader of the silk industry in Nancheng. However, they do not expect that the storm of war will come like an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, sweeping away the fate of everyone. In this cruel war, the beautiful heroine Dani, with her tenacious and unyielding personality, transcended the narrow personal love, completed the sublimation of life, and realized the legend of her own life. This work is known as the Chinese version of "Gone with the Wind".

In order to make a living for her blind husband and her two children, Puyu, a poor girl, came to a restaurant to work as a waitress. However, she fell in love with Wang Xiaoer for a long time and fell into a dilemma between love and love. Then the blind husband ran away, and Puyu and Wang Xiaoer reluctantly parted ways. Puyu fell into a hellish reincarnation of fate. She fell into prostitution and lost her beloved son. When she reunited with Wang Xiaoer, the two could no longer stay together. As the saying goes, the most blessed mandarin ducks are looking for good places in the wilderness, leaving the old alleys with affection and leaving the setting sun.

This work is part of the author's detective novel series "The Heroic Thief Lu Ping", which tells the detective story of the hero Lu Ping, portrayed by Sun Liaohong, who helped the poor, rescued the poor, and hoe the strong and the weak. Lu Ping, portrayed by Sun Liaohong, has a very distinctive appearance. He wears a red bow tie, has a red mole on his left ear, and smokes Turkish cigars. He robbed the rich and gave to the poor, was cynical, secretive, humorous and witty, upright and enthusiastic, and had a changeable appearance. He visited wealthy families, private houses and mansions, stole and extorted, and did everything. He was a wanted criminal who gave the police a headache. The author used such a character to strongly criticize and satirize the dark corruption of the upper class of society at that time.

"Biography of Flowers on the Sea" is a famous novel in the late Qing Dynasty. It is the most famous novel in Wu dialect and the first dialect novel in China. Also known as "The Brothel Treasure Guide" and "The Romance of the Brothel on the Sea", there are 64 chapters. The main content of this novel is about the brothel life in the Shili Foreign Market in Shanghai, China in the late Qing Dynasty, involving the officialdom, business circles and the social aspects linked to them at that time.

"Deep Night" is originally the title of a piece in the opera "Farewell My Concubine". The author uses this song throughout the novel. It is not only a symbol of the joys and sorrows between the hero and heroine, the coachman Ding Er, and the singer queen Yuerong, but also a true portrayal of the times they lived in. Through the love tragedy of the hero and heroine, the author reveals the coldness and darkness of the society at that time.

The novel describes the grievances, grievances, joys and sorrows of the three families of Zeng, Yao and Niu in Beiping during the decades from the Boxer Rebellion to the Anti-Japanese War. It is interspersed with major historical events such as Yuan Shikai's theft of the country, Zhang Xun's restoration, the Zhili-Fengtian War, the warlord separatism, the May 4th Movement, the "Yusi School" and "Modern Commentary School" pen battles, and the outbreak of World War II. It gives a panoramic view of the ever-changing historical landscape of Chinese society.

The original novel of the Oscar-winning classic film of the same name is a masterpiece about African creatures. This book is one of the greatest English literary works of the 20th century and has been hailed as "one of the best books describing Africa". Its superb and unique narrative art has impressed a generation of great writers such as Hemingway and Updike, and the author Isaac Dinesen has become a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The original work and the Oscar-winning film of the same name have a profound impact (starring Meryl Streep, best picture at the 58th Oscar). The famous translator Liu Guozhi has an excellent translation that is as standardized as a Chinese textbook. Isaac Dinesen (1885-1962), whose real name was Karen Blixen, was a famous Danish female writer. After her marriage, she went to the then British Kenya with her husband, who had a noble title, to start a coffee planting farm. After the business failed, she returned to China in 1931 and began writing. He was once a strong contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The work is based on the author's experience of running a coffee farm in the foothills of the Ngong Mountains in Kenya from 1914 to 1931 - a vast land that is neither fertile nor fertile, but seems to be purified by nature. It ingeniously blends many people, scenery and objects into one. It is a faithful and literary observation and description, and it also always runs through the thinking about oneself and human nature. At the same time, it truly reproduces the life of European immigrants in the special environment of Africa.

"First Call from Heaven" tells a story that happened in a small town on the shores of Lake Michigan. One day, its residents suddenly started receiving phone calls from the deceased, making this place the focus of global attention. A mysterious "unknown" call breaks the tranquility of Coldwater, allowing people who have lost loved ones to hear their loved ones' voices again. Is this the greatest miracle of all time, or a massive hoax? As the news spread, the entire world fell into the fanatical pursuit of "miracles." History and reality overlapped in this ordinary town, and people chasing miracles fell into the polar opposites of doubt and belief. Only Sali Harding, a sad single father, is determined to find out the truth of the incident. A modern fable that can heal all pain, a breathtaking work that can't be put down, the best-selling work by Mickey Albom, the best-selling healing author in Europe and America in recent years.

The most high-profile winner of the International Dublin IMPAC Literary Award after Pamuk, and the annual best book of many authoritative European and American media; with a hard core and rich layers, it sinks into the hearts of readers like a rock. Per Patterson (1952-) is one of the most famous contemporary Norwegian writers and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He once worked as a librarian, printer, bookseller, and translator. He gradually rose to prominence after publishing his first collection of short stories in 1987. A pair of childhood friends reunited by chance in the autumn morning, which brought back the memories they shared thirty-five years ago. Tommy's mother suddenly ran away from home, and his father soon abandoned them too. As a result, Tommy was separated from his sisters and adopted by different families. His good friend Jim lives with his devout mother. Tommy and Jim accompanied and supported each other through the difficult but innocent teenage years, and then drifted apart after entering high school, until different fateful encounters eroded their friendship. Today, Jim is fishing alone on the bridge, and Tommy drives by him in a brand new sports car. Following the experiences of the two men on this day, mixed with the pain of past events and memories, we watch as their fates once again rush towards a new reality. This book is another masterpiece that shows the depth of Per Patterson's writing. With his inspiring writing style, he builds a cold and quiet escape for readers in the bustling world.

"Small Town" tells a story that happened in a small Italian city before World War I: An opera troupe was invited by the city lawyer Bellotti to perform for the first time in 48 years. This made the residents of the city eagerly awaiting and eager to watch, but the progress of the matter was not satisfactory. There were completely different opinions on the performance issue: the lawyer group representing the democratic forces advocated the performance, believing that it would bring vitality and business opportunities to the small town; the Father Don Taddeo group representing the conservative forces opposed the performance, believing that it would corrupt the city's morals and morals. Afterwards, some unexpected things did happen: the male citizens of the small town pursued the female singer of the troupe, and the tenor in the troupe fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the city at first sight. The most important thing was that the hidden contradictions in the small town were fully exposed at this opportunity... But in the end, the two opposing groups reached a reconciliation with Bellotti's efforts, the performance was a complete success, and the troupe also left the small town smoothly a few days later.

In 1933, a series of violent murders of three people occurred in the small Nicaraguan town of León, for which the authorities launched a series of court investigations, evidence collection, interrogations and defense work. Castañeda, a handsome and progressive lawyer, was accused of being a murderer for no reason. He was imprisoned, tortured, and eventually died in a trap set by the authorities. As the book ends, the case remains a mess, but its repercussions extend from the thirties to the eighties. Who is the real murderer has never been determined from beginning to end. "Condemnation" is an "anti-dictatorship novel" deliberately innovative by Sergio Ramírez: it combines many characteristics of detective novels, political novels, empirical novels, love novels, and custom novels. It has the strengths of many novels but has its own characteristics. This book has been hailed as "one of the best novels in Central America" ​​in the 20th century. In 1989, it won the "Hamet Award" - the world's highest award for detective literature. The famous Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes praised this novel as inheriting the writing techniques of "The Red and the Black", "Madame Bovary" and "Crime and Punishment"; the Latin American literary circle called the book "a real miniature kaleidoscope of Central America" ​​and called Ramirez a great writer who can stand shoulder to shoulder with García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Cortázar and Fuentes. The author Sergio Ramirez, a former vice president of Nicaragua, is one of the important representative writers of Latin American post-explosion literature.

Each novel in "Roman Stories" is actually a miniature version of "Alive". The reading experience is like a micro-movie, and you can feel the vivid and vivid interactions of ordinary people in Rome. 61 Short stories form a picture of post-war (World War II) Rome. "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" is a film of the same name starring "Bicycle Thieves" director De Sica and comedy master Toto. It is a masterpiece of short stories by Moravia, the most important Italian "neo-realism" novel master in the 20th century, who was at the peak of his creation. The source of Italian "Neorealism" cinema. "Rome Stories" is the most important short story masterpiece of Moravia, the most important "neo-realist" novel master in Italy in the 20th century, who was at the peak of his creation. Sixty-one short stories describe the sweetness, sourness, bitterness and joy of life in the world. Workers, barbers, taxi drivers, maids... These little people in big cities, forced by life, do everything possible or even use any means to find a way to survive. "Rome Story" more or less provides literary material for Italian neorealist films and is one of the sources of film creation. The book has also been adapted into a movie, starring comedy master Toto and important neorealist director De Sica.

Kjaer Eskelsen, the best contemporary short story writer in Norway, is a masterpiece that interrogates the human condition of existence; his cold writing style takes the theme of existentialism to the extreme; it directly touches on the loneliness and fragility of human beings. It seems cold and disillusioned, but also reveals a condensed black humor. Kjaer Eskelsen (1929-) is known as the best contemporary short story writer in Norway. He has won the Norwegian Critics' Literary Award in 1983 and 1991, the Prague Literary Award in 1996, and the Swedish Academy Nordic Literature Award in 2009. He is famous for his description of the situation of individuals in an unfriendly environment. He is good at facing the loneliness in life with black humor. This book collects the most representative short works of Kjaer Eskelsen in his writing career. It explores the misunderstanding and alienation between close relationships in modern society from a new perspective, and delicately and profoundly depicts the uneasy emotions hidden under the surface of ordinary people's ordinary lives, as well as the unsolvable problems when people get along with each other. The characters in these stories live in the world in different ways, being both observers and observed, falling into intolerable or difficult predicaments. Incomplete dialogues and momentary introspections always demonstrate the power of silence and confrontation.

The only special existence of Thorvald Steen, the pinnacle of Nordic literature and historical novelist, is a story that is both hard and soft; he transcends the heights of life and faces the difficulties and pain of growing up. Thorvald Steen (1954-) is a Norwegian government scholar and former chairman of the Norwegian Writers' Association. He won the Slovak Jan Hawley Award in 2007 and the Thomson Literary Award in 2010. His works have been translated into more than 20 languages ​​and published in 18 countries. He enjoys a high status in the Nordic literary world. The protagonist of the novel is a fourteen-year-old boy who loves ski jumping and is extremely talented. The father has high expectations for the boy's career prospects, while the mother hopes that her son will give up this dangerous sport. However, on an ordinary training day, dire signs began to appear in the boy's body. He discovered that he had a rare muscle disease that would eventually lead to paralysis. One more jump from the high platform could have caused serious injury and he was told to give up the sport immediately. As the disease worsened, the boy's family also fell into a crisis of disintegration: the father refused to face his son's pain, and the mother could not bear the mental blow and was admitted to the hospital. In the end, the boy decided to jump again. Knowing that it might bring fatal danger, he still accepted the last challenge without hesitation...

The 120th anniversary commemorative edition of Hemingway's birth; the continuation and deepening of "Death in the Afternoon"; an excellent book that deeply understands Hemingway's philosophy of life and ultimate pursuit, and feels Hemingway's unique charm up close; it contains many precious historical images and vividly reproduces the art of bullfighting written by Hemingway. Bullfighting was Hemingway's lifelong passion, and Spain was his passionate country. In 1959, he went to Spain again. After returning to China, the manuscript he submitted in response to the invitation of "Life" magazine was reasonably deleted by the editor, and the essence was retained. Therefore, after nearly thirty years, he had this second "bullfighting book" "Dangerous Summer" after "Death in the Afternoon". This is a book about life and death written by an energetic man in his sixties. This man had reason to worry that he had only a few years left to live, so he returned to Spain, where he had lived in his passionate youth, and reexperienced the art of bullfighting that can give people a "sense of immortality." Finally, he left us a record of understanding life and understanding life and death.

Hemingway's 120th anniversary edition. One of Hemingway's most popular non-fiction works, a unique memory about Paris, a classic among classics. The translator Tang Yongkuan is a famous translator, and his translation is well-known. Containing precious black and white images of Paris in the 1920s and 1930s, the people, events, and objects described by Hemingway are classically reproduced in different visual texts. "If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris when you were young, then it will be with you wherever you go for the rest of your life, because Paris is a moveable feast." There are countless fictional or non-fictional works about Paris, and the "movable feast" written by Hemingway is perhaps the most lingering and lamentable among them. In the 1920s, Hemingway and his newlywed wife lived in Paris as journalists stationed in Europe. This book records the memory of this sojourn. However, this book was written more than thirty years later. In other words, the "scene" of the feast has long since disappeared. The author and readers are only tracing those past years in their memories. Those people and objects have been out of focus and deformed through the lens of time. All personal memories about Paris are blended into a common historical memory of Paris. As the saying goes, "Paris will never end."

"The Man Without Personality (Set of Volumes 1 and 2)" is Musil's unfinished posthumous work. It is a "spiritual novel" that plays an important role in the modernist literature of the twentieth century. In 1999, at the request of the Bertelsmann Literary Publishing House and the Munich House of Literature, a jury composed of thirty-three writers, critics, and German language and literature experts each selected a list of the most important German novels of the 20th century. At the top of the list was "The Man Without Personality."

Hemingway's 120th anniversary edition. The best book to deeply understand Hemingway's philosophy of life and ultimate pursuit, and experience Hemingway's unique charm up close; Hemingway's "Bullfighting Book" provides a very detailed and in-depth introduction and discussion of the art of bullfighting. It vividly reproduces the art of bullfighting described by Hemingway; it includes many precious historical images. Bullfighting was Hemingway's lifelong passion. In his view, bullfighting was not only the most dangerous and beautiful sport, but also a sculpture, an art, and "the only art in which the artist's life is in danger." Hemingway published a long article on Spanish bullfighting in 1930. Based on this, he published the "Bullfighting Book" "Death in the Afternoon" two years later. In the book, he gave a very detailed and in-depth introduction and discussion of bullfighting, pointing out that the matador's life and death performance in the bullring has a strong appeal, "can make people intoxicated, make people feel immortal, and make him fascinated." "Although this enchantment is short-lived, it is as profound as the soul leaving the body." It also extended from bullfighting to discuss the theory and specific principles of novel creation, as well as his profound insights into death. "Death in the Afternoon" is the best book to deeply understand Hemingway's philosophy of life and ultimate pursuit, and to experience Hemingway's unique charm up close. This book contains many precious historical images, vividly reproducing the art of bullfighting described by Hemingway.

"Answered Prayer" is Capote's last novel in his creative career. It is a report of a true story based on his diary and letters from relatives and friends. In this novel, which is like a last words, he used unprecedented frankness to create a large number of social celebrities, such as the female writer Collet, the Duchess of Windsor, and the idol star Montgomery Clift.

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I wanted to be anyone, someone passing by, no one knew anything about him. The hero of "The Autocrat" strictly implemented my dream. My desire to change my identity came from my mother. She would sometimes forget her children's names, and she would call me Claude, Juliet, Emilie... It was funny and made me think about writing a novel about it. For me, writing is like jumping into the unknown, jumping into the so-called blank slate. Every time I venture out, I gain a little bit of territory. I try my best to push the boundaries of what can be said and what cannot be said further, and expand the scope of what can be said, in order to show that I am a pioneer. Every December I reread my works and pick one. People like me, who are in a very resistant state when writing, must let them sit quietly for a few months...

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The novel tells the story of a young couple, Frank and Amber Wheeler, who lived in the suburbs of Connecticut on a road called "Revolutionary Road" in the 1950s. Many middle-class families similar to them lived in the nearby community. Frank (also meaning "frank") is a down-to-earth corporate white-collar worker, while April (also meaning "April"), a housewife, is lively, romantic and full of fantasy. The gap between ideal and reality put their relationship into trouble, and the increasingly frequent quarrels almost suffocated the two. Epper's plan to move to Europe to find himself once saved the crisis and gave them a brief hope of changing their lives. However, the plan was ultimately shattered and their fate was irreversible. It slides into tragedy... As Yates himself said: "The characters in my novels are all within the limitations of their known and unknown. They want to be the best and do what they can't help but do, but in the end they inevitably fail because they can't help but go back to their original appearance."

The representative work of Richard Yates, a faithful recorder of mainstream American life in the mid-20th century and the "writer's writer"; Richard Yates is on par with Chekhov, Fitzgerald, and John Cheever in literary attainments, and is deeply loved by famous writers such as Kurt Vonnegut, Andre Du Bois, Nick Hornby, David Hare, Raymond Carver, Joan Didion, and Richard Ford. Advocate; "Yates, along with Fitzgerald and Hemingway, are the three undisputed great American novelists of the twentieth century. The highest praise I can give Yates is that his work feels more like the work of a playwright than a novelist: he wants you to see everything he describes." - David Hare (playwright of "The Hours" and "The Reader") At eighteen, Prentiss is drafted into the Army. He is lonely and sensitive, eager to integrate into the surrounding environment but repeatedly frustrated. The trivial things in the army were infinitely magnified by his sensitivity, enough to shake lives. The divorced mother stubbornly wanted to become a sculptor regardless of her embarrassment of life, so she turned to put all her trust in reality and emotion on Prentiss. The war ended soon, and Prentice's heroic dream was never realized. Faced with the airtight and suffocating family love and reality, his choice was to escape or run away?

Kaminsky is a legendary painter who is famous in the painting world. However, as he grows older, he chooses to remain anonymous and live in solitary confinement. Gradually, people forget his name. Sebastian is an art critic who desperately desires fame. He decides to earn a good future for himself by writing Kaminsky's biography, and his inner calculation has already been made. Sebastian drove to Kaminsky's home, little did he know that a series of failures and setbacks were waiting for him. At Kaminsky's request, Sebastian took him on a journey to find his first love. After a series of twists and troubles, Sebastian realized that Kaminsky had already been interviewed by another reporter, and he had been played around by this old man from beginning to end. The film "Goodbye Lenin" director Wolfgang Beck and star Daniel Brühl reunited for this film, which was released in Europe and the United States in 2016.

The representative work of Richard Yates, a faithful recorder of mainstream American life in the mid-20th century and the "writer's writer"; Richard Yates is on par with Chekhov, Fitzgerald, and John Cheever in literary attainments, and is deeply loved by Kurt Vonnege. Gut, Andre Du Bois, Nick Hornby, David Hare, Raymond Carver, Joan Didion and Richard Ford and other famous writers fans; "Yates, Fitzgerald and Hemingway can be regarded as the three indisputable American figures in the twentieth century. The greatest compliment I can give Yates is that he writes more like a playwright than a novelist: he wants you to see what he describes." - David Hare (The Hours and The Reading) The protagonist of the novel, John Wilder, is a real visionary. Over the age of 35, he is a boring but slightly successful salesman in the countryside. He has a lovely wife and a 10-year-old son, who is plain but warm. However, life is always full of twists and turns: his family no longer regards him as the glory of the family, because he abandoned and betrayed his marriage, his former family collapsed, he had nowhere to go, and eventually became addicted to alcohol. Overwhelmed, Wilder left home, resigned, and came to Hollywood, where he believed his dream would eventually become a reality. It seems that bad luck has never let go of this sinner who has made mistakes. His lover abandoned him and the producer ruthlessly rejected him. All kinds of misfortunes deepened his dependence on alcohol and dragged him into an increasingly bottomless hell.

The handsome, kind-hearted William works in a restaurant and dreams of becoming an actor; the confident, humorous JB tries to make a name for himself in the art world; the well-off Malcolm works in a well-known architectural firm, but has lost his original love for architecture; and there is the introverted and enigmatic Jude, a talented assistant prosecutor. After getting acquainted with a famous university in Massachusetts, they first came to New York to make a living. They were high-spirited but penniless and drifting. As he grew older and had a successful career, the friendship spanning more than thirty years faced the greatest challenge - the elusive Jude himself. He didn't want to talk about the shadow of his past with others, and chose to harm himself again and again in loneliness. With the help of his friends, Jude's inner defenses gradually disintegrated... "I know my life is meaningful because... Because I am a good friend." "A Small Life" is a hymn of brotherhood and an odyssey to explore the meaning of life. In friendship, what is damaged in us becomes whole again.

The core of this story comes from a husband-murder case in Ludi in the 1990s. Xiulian is a woman from a mountain village. Since she was born, she has been burdened by fate: she has a hard life, has bad eyesight, and is unmarried. Later, out of desperation, she married Ding Shun, a wretched-looking, lazy man. Xiulian's miserable life began from then on. When Xiulian was pushed to the edge of the cliff of despair, she resolutely rose up to resist.

In 1997, a wave of layoffs hit the country, especially the old industrial bases in Northeast China. Faced with sudden life difficulties, the vast majority of laid-off people fell into confusion and difficulty. They ran around and tried to survive at all costs. Zhang Xiaoyu is a laid-off female worker. By chance, she joined a health care product company and began a three-year working experience. She stood out in the fierce competition and worked hard to improve herself. From a housewife to a sales management expert, she was promoted to a middle-level manager of the company. Zhang Xiaoyu finally woke up from the labor pains again and again, and resolutely left the dream that made her ups and downs.

The road to entrepreneurship is a narrow escape. The courageous ones may go with the flow, or they may have no choice but to do so... Not so with the author. Faced with the sudden end before the climax of the project, he repeatedly struggled with the truth with internal injuries. In the end, what was left to us was the scene of a young man singing. No matter what the truth of the failure is, this story tells us that those who are unwilling to compromise, such as some middle-aged people around you and me, often look sad, but the youthful heart occasionally revealed can catch people off guard.

The late Ming Dynasty was an era of bright colors. Transcendence of etiquette and publicity of individuality were the most distinctive characteristics of that era. This world style inevitably affected literary creation, so the collection of short stories in vernacular "Sanyan Erpai" that described the colorful urban life and human emotions was born. "Three words" refers to "Essays to enlighten the world", "Words to warn the world", and "Essential words to awaken the world"; "Erpai" refers to "Surprise at the first moment" and "Surprise at the second moment". "San Yan" and "Er Pai" were compiled at similar times and have similar contents and forms, so later generations often refer to them as "San Yan Er Pai".

This book is the second volume of "Eight Years", the second part of the series of novels "The Wanderers of Wuchou River" written by Mr. Huang Yongyu. It tells the story of the protagonist Zizi who lived in Fujian and Jiangxi during the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, coming into contact with all kinds of people and experiencing all kinds of unusual things. The author uses superb line drawing techniques to depict many characters, and vividly and beautifully depicts the scenery, customs and the beauty of human relationships in southeastern China.

By describing the life of the upper-class aristocratic family in the capital, "The Golden Fen Family" touched upon an area that was ignored by ordinary writers at the time (including revolutionary writers), and provided later generations with real visual materials of the upper class society at that time. In the Jin family, a big and grand family, Mrs. Jin and Jin Quan's concubine Cui Cui were fighting openly and secretly; Jin Yanxi was married for only a few days before pursuing another girl; Usury loans were issued; Jin Quan's sons were idle, uneducated, and lived a life of drunkenness and lavish spending. They visited brothels, married concubines, held Kunjiao, and ate, drank, and had fun all day long...

Male protagonist: Invisible rich second generation, popular star in the entertainment industry, fake white rabbit and little wolfdog Female protagonist: female war reporter, senior singleton Lu Wenwei: I have no journalistic ideals. My ideals were blasted out by artillery fire. Wen Er: I admire you, sister. Lu Wenwei: I don't like the glory, awards, and admiration that the war brings to me. These make me feel that I have taken advantage of the war and feel sorry for the civilians who died. Wen Er: I still admire you, sister. Modern fiction, the fiction of the warring states should not be tested, and should not be taken seriously... It is quite Soviet...

Philip lost his parents when he was young and was born with a deformed foot. He was fostered in his uncle's house. Born deformed and dependent on others, young Philip was sensitive and had low self-esteem. He was often teased and bullied at school, and even though he prayed diligently, he still could not escape the fate of being disabled. Philip understands that his future must be fought on his own. Soon he decided to leave school and live for himself. However, the trial of his humanity has just begun. Family, love, art, ideals, he went round and round in confusion, fought against the flames again and again in the heavy shackles, but fought with all his strength, and finally found a peaceful harbor after reading all the sails... Maugham had a stuttering problem since he was a child. After his parents passed away one after another at a very young age, he began to live under the shelter of others. His childhood experiences deeply influenced his literary creation. This book is an in-depth portrayal of his troubled childhood. In this way, he tried to release the unhappiness caused by the past and explore the meaning of life using the perspectives of philosophy, art and religion.

The whole book is about the experience of the protagonist "Youngster". As a teenager, he joined the U. S. Military and went to Mexico. Soon he was fatally attacked by the Indians. Later, he accidentally joined a team of bounty hunters composed of criminals, veterans and Indians. The nominal leader of this team was Granton, a veteran of the American-Mexican War. In fact, it was Judge Holden who directed life and death. This team of hunters hunted Indians everywhere in Mexico, regardless of age or sex. Naked violence raged across the wilderness. Twenty-eight years later, all team members died one after another. This is a book composed of books. Elements of literature, philosophy, theology, science, and mythology can be seen everywhere. The superposition and integration of multiple dimensions create a huge text capacity and endless interpretation possibilities for the book.

A rare phenomenon-level bestseller in Asia in the past 10 years, it stars Jung Yu-mi and Gong Yoo in the original movie of the same name. South Korean President Moon Jae-in, national host Yoo Jae-suk, and BTS leader Namjoon are all reading. Kim Ji-young was born in Seoul on April 1, 1982. Growing up in a family of civil servants, a family of six lived in a house of 72 square meters. She is just that ordinary girl you meet every day. Since childhood, Jin Zhiying has had a lot of confusion. The best things in the family always go to her younger brother first. She and her sister can only share one room and one quilt. When she was in elementary school, she was bullied by the boy sitting next to her. She cried and confided in her teacher, but the teacher smiled and said, "Boys are like this. The more girls they like, the more they will bully her." When she went to middle school, she often had to be wary of bad guys on the subway and buses. We should not take it lightly in school, as there are also male teachers who like to touch female classmates. But they often choose to swallow their anger. After graduating from college, I entered a public relations company. She found that while her colleagues were mostly female, the senior executives were almost entirely male. I have to socialize after get off work, endure dirty jokes from customers and endless requests to drink. She got married at the age of thirty-one and soon had a child at the urging of her elders. With everyone's "natural" expectations, she quit her job and became a full-time mother. Jin Zhiying felt as if she was standing in the center of a maze. She had been looking for an exit down to earth, but she found that she could never reach the end of the road.

Every soul engraved with love and kindness will become a ferryman in our lives. In the first two parts of the "Ferryman" series, the girl Dylan and the soul ferryman Tristan traveled through the wasteland twice and experienced thrilling ordeals such as being punished by the judge and fighting evil spirits, and finally were able to live in the world. At the same time, Jack and his soul ferryman Susanna, who were thrown into the wasteland, also encountered a very serious crisis: Jack was dragged into the dark and sticky lake by evil spirits and became one of them... However, everything was not over. Cracks in the wasteland have appeared, and frightening changes have taken place in both the wasteland and the human world - buses disappearing from the world, the wasteland shrouded in white mist, and evil spirits that can break into safe houses. Something seems to be making the wasteland unstable, and greater panic begins to spread... When facing survival, death and love, which one will be your final choice? If life enters reincarnation again, what price are you willing to pay for it?

This book is a classic novel by Zhou Jiefu. It describes the Northeast People's Liberation Army's march to the south after participating in the battle to liberate Northeast and North China. Under extremely difficult conditions and through bloody battles, they repeatedly repelled large-scale enemy invasions and achieved a great victory in liberating the vast area south of the Yangtze River, laying a solid foundation for the liberation of the country.

As a newcomer in the workplace, when faced with temptation, should you stay true to your original aspirations or follow the same trend? When interests conflict, fair play or petty tactics? How do you define ambition? Should it be equated with ambition? An inadvertent choice will often break your original life trajectory, or even change your life... The genius blogger David Larter uses his personal real experience as material to reveal to you the other side of the American legal elite under their glamorous appearance. In the United States, the position of Supreme Court clerk is as rare as a unicorn. Every year, hundreds of top law school students fight against all odds to compete for only forty spots. Born into a poor immigrant family, Audrey Coyne wanted to be one of the 40. She graduated from Yale Law School with excellent grades, but as an Asian woman, her journey to pursue her dream was particularly difficult. Judge Christine Huang Stinson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is also an Asian immigrant. She is ambitious and plays a pivotal role in the legal community. She has the power to send judicial clerks to the Supreme Court. Coyne always looked up to her as an idol and was lucky enough to get the opportunity to work under her. Coyne thought he was one step closer to his ultimate dream, but he didn't know that there was a huge crisis hidden under the enviable situation...

The work is mainly set in the old revolutionary areas of northern Shaanxi from the 1930s to the 1950s. It tells the story of a revolutionary soldier's mother, Liu, an old lady with little feet with deep-rooted feudal ideas, and her family's struggle to survive in a complex and changeable environment. It reflects the friction and collision between different ideas when the old and new societies change, and the long journey of Chinese women from a closed and ignorant state to awakening and liberation since the New Culture Movement. It extols the great changes that reform and opening up have brought to people's lives after the founding of New China.

The author of this novel is Dazai Osamu, who is known as Japan's three major youth novelists together with Natsume Soseki and Murakami Haruki. The novel takes Lu Xun, who studied in Japan in the early 20th century, as the subject. An old doctor who practiced medicine in a village in northeastern Japan reminisced about his interactions with his classmate Lu Xun and his exchanges with Mr. Fujino, the professor at Sendai Medical College "forty years ago". It brilliantly depicts the arrogant and smiling young Lu Xun despite being "tone deaf".

"Desolate City" is Zhou Jianing's first-person novel, which the author herself regards as the starting point of her writing. For both the characters in "Desolate City" and readers born in the 1980s and 1990s who grew up with Zhou Jianing, this story may be the final chapter of their connection with their long youth, and the prelude to their reconciliation with the adult world. Before leaving his hometown of Shanghai, the protagonist "I" in the novel worked in a cafe, met all kinds of people, and spent the last worry-free time in his life. During the three years of Beidiao, "I" had a fierce collision with society, and fell into an emotional quagmire with all the pain. Now "I" am back in Shanghai, reunited with all my former friends, standing on the edge of my thirties, entangled with two memories while saying goodbye, as if struggling to wake up from a dream. The novel delicately describes the young generation's journey of saying goodbye to their youth, and reflects the loneliness, confusion and emptiness of contemporary urban youth as they grow up.

The Chinese version of "What is Home?" Is a journey of loss and joy by the railway, a temporary family story of young people's pain and redemption. A pair of "blood" half-brothers, a boy who escaped from his stepfather's clutches, a girl who was judged to be severely mentally retarded, a boy with mental retardation due to prenatal injuries, a pair of brothers who fled, the saddest corner of the earth, seven street children, a heartbreaking rainbow journey.

"Are we finished? We've only just begun!" Man San, a popular author of serialized columns on Douban and ONE, and the standard bearer of "Depressive Style" writing, is the latest story collection. This book contains a total of fifteen works. The fifteen stories are all about the embarrassing and unlucky moments that the heroes and heroines in the city encountered in their daily lives. "A Worry at Work" tells the story of a private restaurant manager who, in order to improve his family's living conditions, agreed to a mysterious man's commission to secretly photograph his customers while they were dining. As a result, he fell into a huge personal crisis. In "The Life of an Ostrich", people will transform into different animals as their temperament changes. As an honest taxi driver, the protagonist is an ostrich. One day he picked up a wolf and fell into a dangerous situation. The young couple in "Monkey Change" lost their child when they returned to their hometown for the New Year. In the end, the wife recognized a monkey as her own child, which triggered the ultimate conflict between the couple. In "Sumatra and Tiger", a stay-at-home wife goes to the street to buy a delicious cup of coffee, which eventually turns into a street murder... A mirror that reflects the times. A guide to resolving the embarrassments of life. A collection of wonderful stories that are poignant, sad and uplifting for everyone right now. In these interesting and sincere stories, Slow San has found a zone of fiction between darkness and faint light. In the display of the simplest life scenes, there is a shadowy effect, like the reflection of a pool of water on a cliff. In that reflection we may see torrents of affection and doubt.

Sheng Nan, an associate professor at Hotpot University, died because he was not promoted to professor, but one of his eyes did not close. His brother came and organized a decent memorial service for him. Unexpectedly, at the farewell ceremony, as soon as the principal finished reading the professor appointment letter, Sheng Nan actually sat up and shouted: "Comrades, I'll wait. This is the day!" The novel truly reproduces all kinds of strange phenomena in Chinese universities today, with vivid characters, compact and twists of plot, and humorous and pungent language. It analyzes the confusion and collision between people's spirit and material, soul and body, ideal and reality, and composes a symphony of joy and sorrow in all aspects of life.

In a world that adults can't see or understand, they are together. Following reality shows, becoming a "fan girl", finding myself in an online support group, and experiencing collective madness, money scams, and disillusionment. Parents and children each carry secrets and unhappiness, but they are also entangled in the instinctive love and sacrifice of family, not knowing that a violent storm is coming. Wu Shan, who has always been a good child, suddenly brought a stranger home... The life of a big factory in a corner of the southwest, with lively experiences of human voices and heat; a girl who has gone deep into her childhood, wandering between the city, her hometown, and between generations. The vast life of two generations of Jianghai is filled with thousands of quiet legends.

All that does not belong to his world but can only be a reflection, just as everything in his world can only be a reflection of that world, and each other can only exist in the form of reflections, just like the moon in the mirror. The story of "The Grudge" begins with the death of Mrs. Huang from a jewelry family. Middle school teacher Yu Yiping received a call from his aunt Yu Zhen, the wife of wealthy businessman Huang Jingyue, whom he had not seen for several years. This opened up his inextricable relationships with his cousin Baozuan, the Huang family's eldest daughter Jinzuan, his adopted son Jingyao, and the ambiguous young man Cheng Han. The male protagonist Yu Yiping is involved in the family struggle of the wealthy Huang family. He experiences all kinds of entanglements of love and hatred, and fights for property. In order to protect his loved ones, he falls into traps... In the atmosphere of the end of the century, money pursuits, emotional entanglements, and wealthy families are all staged. In this world that does not belong to him, Yiping is wandering and lost, and then moves towards the ending that he is destined to be unable to escape. A fin-de-siècle urban fable that "sees him erecting a red tower, watching him entertain guests, and watching his tower collapse."

When people who crave meaning suddenly face a meaningless world, they first show two mentalities. Resigned to meaninglessness: decadence. Impassioned resistance to futility: tragic. There is also a third state of mind: boredom. In the 19th century, the Russian aristocratic elite intellectuals had manors and serfs at home. They lived a comfortable life and were well educated. Under the high-pressure rule, social consciousness was first enlightened. They were full of enthusiasm, dissatisfied with reality, and eager to make a difference. However, they repeatedly encountered obstacles and were unable to change the class status quo, and became painful, depressed, cynical, and contemptuous of all moral norms in life. This boredom of unwillingness to accept and resist is reflected in Russian literature, which is the emergence of a series of "superfluous people" images. Always looking for meaning, but never getting it. They are not heinous and evil people, they are even honest and upright people. Any efforts you make will bring harm to others. In the end, his soul was gradually corroded by this unfathomable loss, and he became even more zombie-like. But this mentality of hating life and admiring death seems to be very close to the current "little mourning". There are such "superfluous people" in every era. Because they can't find the meaning of life, they feel that they are excluded by the era and are a dispensable person. Following Pushkin's Onegin and Lermontov's Pycholin, they are an unavoidable image of a "superfluous man" that condenses the spirit of an entire era in Russia. Lermontov's "The Superfluous Man" is the beginning of Russian social psychological novels. It is a travelogue, a diary, a love adventure and a confession.