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A person's life is almost ordinary and bleak, unless a sparkling neurosis appears in your ordinary life. "Behind every murder case is the dark side of human nature." - The story of the battle of wits and courage between the crazy detective and Miss Pepper.

This book is a collection of novellas written by the author Zhang Chi. The content includes 7 short stories with different styles.

The novel "Coloratura" takes the search for the protagonist Ge Ren as the basic clue and solves the mystery of Ge Ren's life and death as the structural center. It describes Ge Ren's life circumstances, political pursuits and love experiences in his short life, and tells the story of his personal destiny in historical turmoil. The most distinctive feature of the novel is that it uses the oral accounts of three parties and a large number of quotations to complete the narrative. There are many characters in the book with different temperaments and identities. They narrate this historical mystery in different tones, which is meaningful and triggers our experience and thinking about history and reality, truth and fiction, memory and forgetting, chatter and silence, and other living conditions.

This is a novel with a "burning" temperament. Frustration and passion coexist in sharp and powerful words, just like a passionate rock song. In 2016, I worked part-time at Trantuo Boxing Gym. At dusk, a girl played in the gym. She knocked the two strong men to the ground, stood in front of me and said, "I'm here to take back a second that belongs to me." Her broken eyebrow reminded me of my friend from 18 years ago. The girl's name is Ajiu. The life of the young girl Ah Jiu had an unbearable beginning: at home, her father died young, her mother remarried, and her stepfather was violent; at school, she was despised; after she was forced to leave school, she struggled to stand on her own feet from the bottom. 18 Years later, Ah Jiu came back wearing boxing gloves...

Fourteenth century, Barcelona. In the dirty streets, the smell of bread mixes with the rancid stench of death. Dying slaves begged feebly; Jews were forced into shackles and struggling; traders were careful to run a subsistence business because if they went bankrupt they would lose their heads; only the nobles enjoyed everything, even the first night of the serf bride. Each character is walking on the edge of hell, and their last solace is the sea cathedral being built in the city. In the darkness of this chaotic era, the Sea Cathedral has witnessed all the hardships and also brought a little glimmer of light.

With a naturally good voice and creative talent, this beautiful girl is an anomaly in the American pop world. In a world where young artists are constantly making gossip headlines, Crystal adheres to the principle of being down-to-earth and pays attention to the impact that her public figure may have on society. For Crystal, who is strict with self-discipline, music has always been her voice. Through the melodies and lyrics she creates, she can express her self-assertion and persistence of faith - prayer to God, concern for her family, desire for love, and concern for current affairs. Born in California, he started playing guitar and singing his own songs at the age of thirteen. Just when he was about to enter high school, he signed a record contract and prepared to step onto the international stage to show off his skills...

The story of the novel is based on China's historical environment in the first half of the 20th century. It not only describes China's internal and external troubles, but also shows the spirit of people with lofty ideals to strive for a new era. Among them, "my grandfather", the young intellectual Dong Zhilan, is a typical figure of a generation of literati who honed the pride of Chinese intellectuals and founded a new school "Fangfeiyuan School". Despite hardships, he remained determined. The plot has ups and downs, and the two clues of love and career are interspersed in the narrative. The description is soul-stirring and makes people remember after reading it.

This is an autobiographical novel that describes the touching story of the author's step-by-step growth from an ordinary mountain boy to a general of the Republic in the melting pot of the People's Army. It eulogizes the great changing role of the People's Army on ordinary citizens. The author describes that the peak moments of his life were spent in Nanchang, the hot land of the August 1st Uprising, which is particularly memorable.

Liu Guanying was born in the 1960s and grew up in the 1970s. This was an exciting and unforgettable era, full of memories and nostalgia. It was also an era that purified and sublimated the soul. After the influence and baptism of the times, one spiritual monument after another of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation has been erected in her heart. Over the past thirty years, she has experienced countless storms and overcome hardships one after another. She has won countless applause and praise from people with her unyielding faith, firm steps, and beautiful sentiments.

"Traces 2" continues to tell the story of three college students' growth experiences in society after graduation. Wei Min worked hard, pioneered and innovated in his job, and achieved great results; Zhang Qi resigned and started his own business, opening up a new situation in his career; Luo Laijin made steady progress in his position. They continue to write different lives in their respective positions and leave different traces. The justice and courage displayed by the protagonist Wei Min leave a deep impression on the readers.

"Return, Go, Come" is a novel co-written by Canadian Chinese writers Chen Sijin and Xuecheng Xiaoling. The novel is like a rich family history, interpreting the joys and sorrows of the Liyuan family, the merchants and celebrities, and the scholarly family in the changing times. The first part of "Return, Go, Come" is set in Shanghai after the reform and opening up. It tells the story of the acquaintance and love between the male protagonist Su Shaoqing and the female protagonist Xiaoqian. It also uses the film montage technique to intersect the love and hatred of the three families. After experiencing turbulent years, the three families have returned to peace, and the unexpected encounter between the male and female protagonists who continue the family lineage creates a different emotional landscape amidst multiple entanglements.

"Miss Wang" is Wang An's original novel, which is serialized on the WeChat account "Miss Wang". The novel is set in Shanghai in the 1930s and tells the story of grievances, hatreds and national justice in troubled times.

The winning work of the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award. It took thirteen years to write, and the manuscript has more than 1 million words. It has been continuously deleted and revised to the current number of more than 600,000 words. The protagonist is a modern scholar who is well-read in poetry and literature. He sows clouds and rains in the contemporary tide of commercialization and achieves a miracle of commercial operation of culture. In the success of fashion, he feels the unknown fragmentation and contradiction in his heart. The novel is full of chatter and noise, and fully presents the grand scene of this era rolling forward with mud and sand.

This novel is set in the construction industry. It tells the story of Ouyang Xiaoou, a beautiful designer, who meets Lin Runlong, the owner of a construction company. It reflects the conflicts and emotional struggles caused by the shortcomings of human nature. The text is simple and easy to understand, and the emotions are sincere and touching.

Haku, Nina and Varsha grew up in the forest of Xing'an Mountains. Haku and Nina were in love, but Varsha was so desperate that he could not extricate himself because of his unrequited love for Nina. Varsha attempted suicide. In order to escape the condemnation of conscience, Nina reluctantly broke off her engagement with Haku and chose to marry Varsha. As winter turns to spring, Haku's wife dies in childbirth, and Varsha is paralyzed in bed due to a logging accident. Although Haku and Nina have an old relationship, it is difficult to rekindle it. In the face of rumors in the town, it is not easy to break through the taboos of reality.

This is a novel about a postal merchant. The novel makes a panoramic scan and summary of the Chinese stamp trading market from 1978 to 2011 through the growth process of the four major stamp dealers: Tan Xiaolei, Hao Wenxue, Jiang Yuan and Hong Jianjun. The novel not only vividly explains the survival and development of the four major postal dealers, but also outlines their love and hatred in detail. The author closely focuses on the theme of "postal dealers" and expresses his understanding and perception of the Chinese postal market in the great era. As a professional postal dealer and stamp expert, the author is very familiar with the survival methods and transaction processes of the stamp market, and also has a clear understanding of the growth process of Chinese postal dealers. What stamps are, what the postal market is, and what postal dealers are, all are explained in this novel.

"Purple Rice" is one of Xu Zechen's "Hometown" series of novels. Sixteen-year-old Mu Mu fled his hometown and came to Lantang Town, where he guarded Miku with Lan's elder Shen He. Because he accidentally stumbled into the affair between Shen He and the third concubine of the Lan family, Shen He recommended him to the third concubine as a handyman in the name of taking care of him. In the Lan family compound, Mu Mu saw many strange things: a master who didn't care about family matters and stayed in a huge cat cage all day long to hang out with cats, a young master and a young lady who fell in love with the same man at the same time... The strangest thing was Shen He, who obviously had a good relationship with his third aunt, but he still tried his best to marry the eldest lady. Finally, during the wedding salute of Shen He and Miss, a cannonball blew up the solemn Lan family compound into ruins...

"A Moment Like a Dream" collects 7 short stories by Ge Shuijing. These novels mostly feature ordinary or even insignificant characters. These insignificant characters are manipulated by life at will and cannot control their own lives. In order to live, they endured too much helplessness. They struggled and gasped in the whirlpool of fate. While moving forward with difficulty, they faced this indifferent world with souls full of helplessness. They silently throw their hearts and cruel reality in front of readers, and then, with a sigh, continue their lives. "A Moment Like a Dream" is published by 21st Century Publishing House and Top 100 Publishing Houses in China.

"The Naked Land" is the first novel by female writer Ge Shuiping. It tells the history of immigration in Baodian Town, Shanxi Province and the rise and fall of the Gai family during the turbulent historical period from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China to the "Land Reform". The work shows the vicissitudes of the Taihang Mountains in the decades before liberation through the rise and fall of a family and the fate of a woman. The novel focuses on the difficulties of human existence, farmers and the land, and delicately displays the painful process of people suffering in the cocoon of life and the blooming beauty of human nature, expressing the understanding of the connotation of life from one side. At the same time, human nature is portrayed and explored at multiple levels and angles. "Naked Land" spans a large time span, telling the history of immigration in Baodian Town, Shanxi Province and the rise and fall of the Gai family during this turbulent historical period from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China to the land reform. Nie Guangqing, a Shandong native, had his family broken up and fled to Shanxi due to a natural disaster. He picked up a wife and daughter along the way and settled in Hewa Valley. Gai Yunchang, a wealthy man from Baodian Town, married four wives and only got a stupid son. No one inherited his family fortune, and his family life could not be continued. His lifelong wish was for a woman to give him a son with a hammer. He fell in love with Nvnu and signed a wife-pawning contract with Nie Guangqing, and Nie Guangqing took her son to be a needle mother at Gai's house. The encounter between Gai Yunchang and the woman led to a marriage. He saw the gestation of life and the meaning of work. However, the land gave people nutrients, but people ravaged it in all kinds of ways: in the end, the land could only be exposed and the days passed.

Ge Shuijing's work can be summarized by the title of one of her novels, that is, her work is about "floating life". What is floating life? It is the bumps and bumps between people; it is the days and months that may be difficult or rich, or fulfilling or boring; it is a hope, a pursuit or a trace of fantasy in the heart in the ordinary years day after day; it is the state of existence on the material and spiritual levels. Ge Shuishi's novels almost all start from the smallest details of daily life. The novel highlights the value of beautiful human nature in the different states of human nature between the secular world and nature, and in the incompatibility between human nature and the secular world and interests. In this way, Ge Shuishi's novels dig out the implications of culture and human nature from the subtleties of life.

Liu Jiandong's writing path is so clearly representative of a generation of young people. He is the one who has done the most natural and successful transition from avant-garde to realism, or from focusing on technique to caring for life. The temptation, passivity, confusion and helplessness of life flash in the euphoric, chaotic and thrilling appearance of the world, and he is realizing the opening and closing of the world of novels.

"I Watch the Lantern" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Ge Shuijing, which includes eight works she has created in recent years. Ge Shuiping's soul has been walking in her hometown, Shanshenao. She is good at telling stories, and her language has strong local characteristics of southeastern Shanxi. She captures the truth and simplicity of folk land and worldly life with her meticulous and tender writing style. "Ordinary life of ordinary people" has become the object of Ge Shuijing's aesthetic observation. Her novels have the elegance and poetry of folk customs, as well as the texture and pain as hard as stone. "I Watch the Lantern" contains very down-to-earth articles. She does not treat the characters in simplistic or moralistic ways, and strives to write about the complexity and multi-faceted characters. Instead of being condescending, she took a level-headed stance and regarded herself as one of them living among them. Relevant to the author's experience as an opera screenwriter, the novel is full of legend, with strong plots and conflicts, and pays more attention to the suspense setting and unexpected ending among the ups and downs. The language of the novel is sometimes simple and smooth, sometimes brilliant, and has the charm of opera and traditional story-telling novels.

The protagonist of "The Good Soldier Svejke" was originally a dog seller living at the bottom, but later became a messenger because of the war. He always followed the clichés of the Imperial Army, so he was always legal and gave no excuses. But for some reason, the more he obeyed his superior's orders, the more trouble he got into. His superiors called him a fool and a fool. In fact, Shuai Ke has a simple and honest personality, likes to speak straightforwardly, and is very witty and brave. Every time he gets into trouble, he can respond tactfully and tell the truth bravely. In this way, Shuai Ke accomplished great things that others could not do. He used folk proverbs and jokes to take over the slogans of his superiors, and waited for opportunities to cleverly fight against the reactionary rulers.

"Shishuoxinyu" looks at the society of two thousand years ago from a modern person's perspective, explores the subtle details, and through plain and long-reading, speculative and vivid language, provides a creative interpretation of the anecdotes of famous people in the Wei and Jin Dynasties recorded in "Shishuoxinyu", and appropriately adapts to modern life. Through the interesting details of some people and some things, the distant "Wei and Jin Dynasties" are familiar and palpable, allowing readers to truly experience the joy, pain and helplessness of the nobles, common people and literati of that dynasty. While appreciating the charm of that era, it also gives a deep inspiration to their own hearts.

The mother of 17-year-old girl Nadia committed suicide. Sad and confused, she rejected herself and began to live a chaotic life. Aubrey, a kind-hearted girl who left home because of her unbearable mother, met Nadia at the community church. Their similar loneliness and trauma made the two become good friends. The sad Nadia fell in love with Luke, the son of a pastor, in order to seek warmth and comfort. However, an unexpected pregnancy became a big secret in this conservative small community. In order not to affect her own future and Luke's reputation, Nadia secretly had an abortion, then left home to go to college, burying this secret deep in her heart. Unexpectedly, a few years later, Aubrey and Luke composed a new love song and invited her to attend their wedding. Nadia returns home with complicated emotions, but her past with Luke is unexpectedly exposed. How will the three of them face their past and future? Between friendship and desire, where will the two girls go?

"Four Generations Under One Roof" is Lao She's main novel in the 1940s, which reflects the lives and experiences of ordinary people in the occupied areas during the Anti-Japanese War in Peking. The book is set in the Xiaoyangquan Hutong in Peking. Through complex conflicts and entanglements, the Qi family in the Hutong is the main one, supplemented by the Qian family, the Guan family and other residents. It depicts the images of many ordinary people from all walks of life at that time; the choices of resistance and obedience, the choice of the country and the individual, and various difficult choices are intertwined, profoundly showing the difficult and tortuous path that ordinary people have traveled in the historical process of the great era.

The background of the writing of "The Story of Hulan River" is the northeastern region of China in the early 20th century. At that time, the Republic of China had just been founded. Although the new trend of civilization had spread into various large and medium-sized cities, there were still many small towns like Hulan across China. They were isolated and ignorant, and still struggled numbly on the edge of poverty and ignorance. In the story, the kind and idle grandfather, the numb and stubborn second uncle, the feudal and ignorant eldest daughter-in-law of the Hu family, the innocent and pitiful little reunion daughter-in-law, and the determined and persistent Feng Zuiwaizi are true portrayals of the souls of the people at that time.

The book is mainly based on the Feng family, a large family in old China, and creates many characters such as the miserable Dong Xue'er, the dissolute and mean Baimai, the helpless cheating Ji Pingmei, the life-and-death love Chang Yujiao and the committed Yizhicao. The whole book runs through the joys and sorrows of the five women who entered the Feng family, interpreting the sorrow and helplessness between the family and women.

"Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is the first novel written by the twentieth-century modernist literary master James Joyce (1882-1941) using the "stream of consciousness" technique. It is also one of the earliest and most successful stream-of-consciousness novels in the history of world literature. The novel has a strong autobiographical flavor and mainly describes how Stephen, a young man in Dublin, tries to get rid of the various influences that hinder his development - family constraints, religious traditions and narrow nationalist sentiments, and the painful process of pursuing the true meaning of art and beauty. In fact, it is a portrayal of the young Joyce's mental journey from awakening to maturity. Joyce's subsequent masterpieces such as "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake" can be regarded as the sequel to "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man".

A collection of casually written novels and essays. The nine chapters of Primary Colors, Purple Love, Love World, Black, White, Green, Blue, Journey to the North, and Flushing tell the story of the experiences of new immigrants struggling to realize their dreams in the United States in the past ten years.

This set includes: "Some People Don't", "No More Queues", "Stand Tall" and "The Last Post".

"Ten Miles of Spring Breeze" is a new novel with a military background by the famous screenwriter and military writer Shi Zhongshan. Li Manquan, a farmer's boy, was about to be discharged from the army. Faced with the fate of returning home and the betrayal of his first love, he was in a dilemma when he received an order to work as an orderly for Master Jiang's daughter Jiang Ge. Jiang Ge almost committed suicide due to an accident. Under Li Manquan's careful care, he gradually recovered, and the love between a man and a woman gradually developed. Time passed and due to the downsizing of the army, Li Manquan transferred to work in a forestry. He met his first love Ma Xiangxiang again, and his wife Jiang Ge also drifted away from him. Is it the help of noble people, or is it a trick of fate? Faced with the twists and turns of the world, people gather and disperse, where should Li Manquan go?

Running allows me to find certain things and also allows me to discard certain things. This is an inspirational novel that records the growth experience of world-famous long-distance runner Charlie Engel. Charlie Engel has been running all his life. He started with marathons, then ultra-marathons. Thirty-five miles, fifty miles, even hundreds of miles, deep into the inhospitable reaches of the earth. He used his own feet to open up his own path in life. Running kicked his decade-long cocaine addiction and kept him sober for the next twenty-two years. Not only saved his life, but also gave him a new life.

This book tells the story of the ups and downs of Chen Shimin, a former architect trained in China, in the tide of reform and opening up. It is a biography, and it can also be said to be a history of contemporary architecture with rich historical materials and vivid characters since the founding of New China. There are the charm of design solutions that adhere to the traditional culture of the Chinese nation, and there are also the inevitable twists and turns in moving forward, such as the wonderful record of lawsuits that reached foreign construction markets. Chen Shimin's growth and success has accompanied and witnessed the rapid development of Shenzhen's reform and opening up in the past 40 years. His architectural works have created cutting-edge landmarks in the pioneer city of reform and opening up with extremely high cultural confidence.

"Heart of a Dog" is an absurd satirical novel that reflects the social life in Moscow in the 1920s. Preobrazhensky, a well-known European medical professor, and his assistant Dr. Bormentar conducted a bold experiment in which they implanted the pituitary gland of a dead man into a dog in an attempt to discover the secret that promotes the rejuvenation of the human body. Surprisingly, however, the results of the experiment led to the humanization of dogs. Although this dog that became a human has a human appearance and the ability to speak, it does not have any moral consciousness. He was shameless and obscene, and did whatever he wanted, making the professor's family restless. In the end, he drew a gun and threatened the life of his creator. As a last resort, the professor and his assistant turned him back into a dog again. The writer uses ingenious artistic techniques to integrate reality and fantasy, tragedy and comedy, light humor and bitter irony, and at the same time puts forward a series of major propositions related to the development of human beings.

1. Malone's novels make people appreciate her wisdom and inspiration as an essayist... She is a thoughtful but enthusiastic and straightforward female writer, who never hesitates to express mixed emotions of joy and sorrow. 2. The phrase "Animal triste" can be traced back to the Latin famous saying from Aristotle's time, that is, "after love, every animal is sad." Undoubtedly, this novel with such a title gives people a sense of foreboding and hints at the idea of ​​fate. 3. The author combines memories and associations to unfold multiple clues in the novel at different levels, giving the novel a full three-dimensional effect; at the same time, this creative technique subverts the traditional reading method in which readers only like to roughly follow the plot.

In the era of Brexit and the Trump administration, how public history affects personal destiny, and how the sincere friendship between a 13-year-old girl and an 85-year-old man can withstand the flow of time, Booker Prize shortlist; ranked among the top ten best books of the New York Times in 2017; Elizabeth, a British university art history teacher, was a good friend as a girl with her much older next-door neighbor Daniel, and the two often discussed art and life issues. Daniel was an artist when he was young and was a good friend of Christine Keeler, a well-known political scandal model in Britain in the 1950s. Starting from a real political scandal, the novel explores the ceiling problem for female artists in the context of the times, and projects the mental state of Elizabeth and other British people during the Brexit period. The whole book is composed of Daniel's dying dream and Elizabeth's memories of her teenage years, which together interweave a picture of current British social life.

Name is a spell that connects destiny, telling the American dream of an Indian immigrant family; a hardcover version of Juppa Lahiri's first novel, a sensation in the world literary world alongside Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. The novel tells the life experience of Gogol, an Indian boy born in the United States, from childhood, adolescence to youth. Gogol's father's name is Ashoke, which means "the one who transcends sorrow"; his mother's name is Ashima, which means "the infinite woman". When Ashoke was young, he suffered a train derailment and survived because of a copy of "The Collected Novels of Gogol". For this reason, when his son was born in the United States, he named his son "Gogol." Gogol has the diligence of an Indian immigrant child and the rebellious personality of an American teenager. As an adult, he has a successful career and has a girlfriend from an upper-class New York family. He wanted to break out of the Indian circle, but in the end he married an Indian girl... After experiencing life and death, reunion and separation, between the East and the West, everyone in the story was torn, struggling, escaping and returning between the two cultures. Where is the real destination?

The story of Lao She's "No Problem" takes place at Shuhua Farm in Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War. The farm manager, Director Ding, has poor management skills but is excellent at coaxing people and is well versed in the ways of the world. Under his management, everyone steals chickens and plays cards all day long, just messing around. Shuhua Farm is in decline, and the fake young artist Qin Miaozhai also gets involved. After returning from studying abroad, Director You took over the farm and began to improve the work style. Everyone felt the joy brought by self-discipline and science... The book includes three of Lao She's representative short stories, "No Problem", "Crescent Moon" and "In My Life", all of which are classics among classics. Among them, the film adaptation of "No Problem" won multiple film festival awards.

At the invitation of Emperor Qianlong, British clockmaker Cox and three assistants sailed to China to create a clock for the emperor that could express people's "subjective time." Cox made a "Silver Ship" clock to express his deep memory for his daughter who died in infancy; his second clock was inspired by the Great Wall and was driven by fire ash to reproduce the time perception of a dying person. When Emperor Qianlong ordered him to build an "Eternal Bell", the atmosphere in the court changed subtly, and these British craftsmen gradually realized that they were in danger...

When reading short stories in 2011, I often find some unfamiliar names, which makes me happy. Accompanying this joy is the fact that some good novels are written by young writers, which is really a blessing. Why I value this so much is because it is not only related to the successors of short story writing, but also related to whether purely literary novels can survive. We generally divide novels into novels, novellas and short stories. In my opinion, short stories are literary novel styles. Modern short stories were written from the May 4th Movement until the 21st century. After a century of repeated training, it should be said that they have become a quite mature style. Around the 21st century, a series of social and cultural changes have occurred, such as the market economy, the Internet, new media based on high technology, etc. The impact of these changes on literature cannot be underestimated. But only the short story seems indifferent to these external onslaughts. This shows that the short story genre has matured into a quite solid fortress. It represents the aesthetic form of traditional novels and will not cater to external changes. In order to adapt to the new literary production environment, many literary styles have to change their appearance, and the changes are nothing more than two ways. One is to force many new factors that adapt to the current consumer era into literature, and the other is to dilute the literariness in the traditional sense as much as possible. However, in order to adapt to the changes in the consumer era, what literature brings is not the rebirth of literature, but the generalization, dwarfing and vulgarization of literature. Of course, these would be an optimistic conclusion based on Darwinism, because the fittest will survive and old literature will die, and a new literary form will be born, such as Internet literature and mobile phone literature. But I have always believed that culture and literature reject evolution. Therefore, it will be a blessing for human civilization to be able to preserve a traditional literary form intact.

"The Last Post" Tietjens' wife and son once again harassed Tietjens for property. At that time, Tietjens was already living with Valentin, who was unmarried and pregnant. Tietjens was a furniture wholesaler at that time, but he suffered losses due to poor management and his life was difficult. What is even more painful is that because of his wife's rumors and troubles, Tietjens was misunderstood by his brother and friends. But his wife's feelings for him slowly improved.

"No Longer Queue" Christopher is an aristocratic gentleman who believes in the traditional morals of the age of chivalry. He is upright, tolerant, and clean. Sylvia is a typical social butterfly. She has many lovers and lives a life of dissipation and indulgence all day long. However, an unexpected pregnancy forces her to marry the conservative Christopher in order to save her reputation. The boring life after marriage and her husband's indifference drove Sylvia crazy, and she began to use all means to stimulate Christopher. Sylvia's elopement with her old lover became the beginning of their conflict, but neither of them had religious beliefs that allowed them to divorce. In this way, this barely maintained marriage plunged the two people into endless torture. By chance, Christopher met Valentin, a modern woman with radical ideas and profound knowledge. Further contact made these two people from seemingly different worlds fall in love, but the fetters of the world hindered the further development of their relationship. At the same time, Sylvia also realized the crisis of her marriage, began to curb her life, worked hard to save the marriage, and showed her kindness to her husband. The advent of World War I and Christopher's joining the army brought this love triangle to tests and choices.

"Some People Don't" Christopher is an aristocratic gentleman who believes in the traditional morals of the age of chivalry. He is upright, tolerant, and clean. Sylvia is a typical social butterfly. She has many lovers and lives a life of revelry all day long. However, an unexpected pregnancy forces her to marry the conservative Christopher in order to save her reputation. The boring life after marriage and her husband's indifference and forbearance drove Sylvia crazy, and she began to use all means to stimulate Christopher. Sylvia's elopement with her old lover became the beginning of their conflict, but neither of them had religious beliefs that allowed them to divorce. In this way, this barely maintained marriage plunged the two people into endless torture. By chance, Christopher met Valentin, a modern woman with radical ideas and profound knowledge. Further contact made these two people from seemingly different worlds fall in love, but the fetters of the world hindered the further development of their relationship. At the same time, Sylvia also realized the crisis of her marriage, and began to curb her life, work hard to save the marriage, and show her kindness to her husband. The advent of World War I and Christopher's joining the army brought this love triangle to tests and choices.

"Stand Tall" is a war novel about World War I written by Ford Madox Ford in the 20th century. During Armistice Day, the hero returned to London from the war for a vacation. During this period, he met sympathetic people, which was misunderstood by his family and friends. After the hero returns to the battlefield, his heart becomes more and more eager to live together with sympathetic people.

A pair of golden pupils, silently looking at the gap in the heart, a boring military camp, a peeping young soldier, two couples who seem to be inseparable, humiliation and betrayal, maybe death is the best ending for love. Carson McCullers is a classic that transcends an era, and Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor star in the movie of the same name. Alienation, loneliness, unavailable love, sudden death...

"Timeshock" is the final work written by the American postmodernist literary master Vonnegut in 1997. He used the form of science fiction, postmodernism, and humorous and satirical writing to carefully construct a special world, the "timequake": due to a crisis of self-confidence, the space-time unity in the universe suddenly shrank, resulting in a "timequake". He decided to have some fun and bounce the world back to 10 years ago. Everyone is repeating exactly what they have done before under a "delusion of having experienced it before". The stories that make you laugh one after another, and the classic quotes one after another, cleverly make the anti-traditional, non-centered and absurd theme "time earthquake" readable. The author does not make predictions or inventions like normal science fiction novels, but directly points to human nature, and even the destiny and soul of mankind. The resentment between the lines is a combination of helplessness and cynicism. It is a combination of humor and sharpness. It is worthy of being the final masterpiece of Feng's life.

This book collects Xiao Hong's short stories, including her first novel "Abandoned Child" and her last novel "March in a Small Town". Most of the subjects in the book are disadvantaged characters, describing their love, telling their struggles, or describing the numbness in ordinary life... The themes are wide-ranging and the themes are diverse. They are arranged according to the time of creation, comprehensively demonstrating Xiao Hong's pioneering attempts in literature. Here we can see the shadow of the characters in "The Story of the Hulan River" and "The Field of Life and Death", and we can also see the extension of the stories. Therefore, this book can be called the "back garden" of Xiao Hong's novel creation, and it is as impressive as the grandfather's garden she mentioned many times.

Aliens came to the earth and punished the earthlings who lied. All earthlings who lied grew various animal tails. The whole city fell into panic. Even so, it still hasn't changed the current situation of people lying. The majority of people have long tails, while those without tails are an outlier. Everyone has started another lively life in the "Tail City". There are still hierarchies, pursuit of fame and fortune, intrigues and hypocrisy and cunning. In the end, when people realized that they had to pay a heavy price for lying, it was too late... "Tail" allows us to see the madness in real society and the bad nature that exists in human beings. Therefore, "Tail" is worthy of being a fable warning of the shortcomings of Chinese society.

When we don't know how to face it, please give me a little courage. "Dear Mr. Harris, please don't pay attention to the red dot in the upper left corner. That's jam, not blood..." A fifteen-year-old girl lost a boy's life due to an accident. She was unable to tell anyone about it, so she was tortured inside. After listening to a lecture by a nun on the death penalty, she decided to write a letter to a death row inmate in the United States. The girl used a false identity - Zoe told the death row inmate Stuart Harris what happened and her own psychological changes. The story is constantly suspenseful but extremely funny and cute. To all lonely and confused girls, about love and hurt, and those unspoken secrets.