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The beautiful and magical Han River is the elite of rivers. As early as the Tang Dynasty, a prosperous and powerful "Galaxy Fleet" was established around the prosperous banks of the Han River, opening the Silk Road. The green ribbon of the Han River connects the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and the south and the north of China, with the power of water, making the Yangtze River civilization and the Yellow River civilization blend with each other and becoming the "water backbone" of the national spirit. The green ribbon of the Han River not only dances across the entire land of China, but also dances to Eurasia through the South, North and Maritime Silk Roads, spreading Chinese civilization to the world. "The Han River is near Xiangyang, and the flowers bloom on the embankment to warm it." Xiangyang was born because of the Han River and is also beautiful because of the Han River. The Han River, which meanders from the west, is mighty and surging. It flows from its source to Xiangyang and enters the broad Jianghan Plain. It is said that the soil and water support the people. The ancestors who lived by the Han River wrote an encyclopedia of farming civilization on this suitable climate, abundant rain, and fertile land. The people of Chu gathered their strength in Jingshan Mountain, crossed the road and blue beetle, aspired to conquer the Central Plains, and became a blockbuster.

This is a collection of scripts, consisting of seven scripts, covering themes such as the Anti-Japanese War, the War of Liberation, earthquake relief, aviation, and aerospace. The writing touches many aspects of life, and it is also Liu Jianwei's masterpiece.

This book is a novel. The book describes the story of a middle-aged couple working in a hospital in a northeastern county in the late 1960s. In response to the "June 26" call to "focus medical and health work in rural areas," they took their three children and settled in Quanyantun, a scenic village nearly a hundred miles away from the city, where they worked and lived for ten years. Like all their colleagues, the two of them settled down in the countryside, served the peasants wholeheartedly, and established deep feelings with the local farmers. At the same time, they also left their family ties in that land that they will never forget.

A large river that is about to enter the sea separates two villages of the same clan and clan - Fangjiacun and Fangjiazhuang. On the Hutou Cliff at the mouth of the sea, the victims who fled the famine and were trapped here also took root here one after another and named the village Hutou Village. Since the beginning of the last century, the three villages have been in a tripartite relationship, sometimes friends and sometimes enemies. In each of the shocking stories, the modern development history of China's rural areas is deduced. Five generations spanned a century, and the work panoramically describes the historical changes in China's rural areas. With a strong sense of social reality and people's livelihood awareness, it returns to history, faces reality, and looks back and thinks about the legendary stories of China's turmoil over the past century.

The novel "Broken" takes the life of Oba Hongtaiji, the leader of the Horqin tribe, as the main line, and interprets the sad history of the various Mongolian tribes living in the 17th century fighting against the Jin and Ming dynasties. The game between the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty, the disputes and turmoil among the Mongolian nobles, and the love and hate of people from all walks of life together constitute a picture of ups and downs. The author boldly uses traditional techniques such as inner monologue, multi-perspective narration, and symbolic metaphors, as well as modern techniques such as contrapuntal structure and temporal reversal. In the context of the story, the author cleverly cuts into the magnificent scenery of the Mongolian grasslands, as well as the Mongolian people's living customs, folk customs, religious beliefs, raising five animals, hunting and training, and other knowledge at that time, and traces back the history and origins of the Mongolian ancestors.

The protagonist of this book, Ye Zang, is a cautious person who is afraid of all emotions in the world. He knows nothing about the complex thoughts of human beings. He uses funny methods to please and make others happy, while hiding his true self. From adolescence to middle age, in order to avoid the world, he began to embark on the road of self-exile, drinking and having fun all day long, using alcohol, women and drugs to live in confusion all day long, and eventually led to self-destruction. He spends his whole life looking for love, avoiding love, and hoping that he can get love. You can imagine his inner anguish, and in the end he can only reach the end of self-destruction.

This book contains eleven short stories written by the writer Huang Yongmei in recent years. It tells the changes of world affairs in a full and humorous style and laments the impermanence of life. The protagonists of these stories are all small people in the city. Amidst the hardships of the world and the hustle and bustle of the times, they continue to strengthen their dignity and spiritual walls in a unique way, prove their existence with tenacious efforts, and try to find a bit of poetry obscured by reality.

The novel "Secret of the South" vividly depicts the rise and fall of enterprises that emerged after the reform and opening up, as well as the personality integrity and emotional world of traders. The novel "Secret of the South" faces mainstream life, explores the secrets of the world and the true nature of human nature. It is based on life and human nature as the criterion. It has a calm and powerful ideological power. Its calm and friendly narrative, with "objectified" humor and detached and broad implications, presents a unique artistic appearance. "Secret of the South"? Brother Shun is a cripple of this era. He "breaststrokes" staggeringly, is tenacious and wise, and "sways" with the rhythm of society, swimming smoothly and dramatically. Because of his lameness, he once fully enjoyed the advantages of rural socialism, which made him somewhat sympathetic to socialism. The future glory started from a deep shame: his boudoir sister was hanging on a tree branch while gathering firewood by the river, exposing her breasts, and was watched by a group of men. He used his own gown to make a breast pocket for her... And the advantages of the breast pocket made the breast pocket an urgent need for rural women. He began to do "underground" sewing, and used his tailoring to obtain "underground" love. After the reform and opening up, the policies of the "higher authorities" continued to "open up", and his breast pocket (bra) business took off day by day; and because of his timely use of the proactive "political concern" of the "higher authorities", his business expanded repeatedly and always turned disaster into good fortune; until financing for the "three major projects" caused a run, he fell from where he fell, and returned to the bra business under an alias. And his "one twist and one twist" has become the inertia of his life, and he began to struggle to find a breakthrough in life. Brother Shun's story hides the "secret of the South". This secret has many layers and makes people think about it often.

In this novel, which was shortlisted for the National Book Award, author Martine Leavit tells the story of Calvin, a young man suffering from schizophrenia, who is convinced that the famous cartoonist Bill Watterson can cure him, as long as he creates another "Calvin & Hobbes" cartoon. The whole story is full of soul-touching philosophical thoughts. It mainly tells the journey of a young man named "Calvin". Because he is incompatible with real life and his mind is full of strange thoughts, this young man, who is different in the eyes of ordinary people, embarks on his own "pilgrimage" in his own way, begins the growth and evolution of his own soul, and finally reaches reconciliation with himself and the world on the road of pursuit.

This is the latest novel written by Liu Xinglong, winner of this year's Mao Dun Literature Award. From the "my" visit process, from the perspective of "my", it describes the life experience of boatmen in the Zigui, Xiling Gorge, and Qingtan areas of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and their pursuit of the authenticity of life. It calls for the strength of life and the return of human nature, pursues a noble spirit that is free from utilitarian colors and does not contain worldly impurities, and creates an image of a tough guy who embodies the natural soul and spirituality.

This book is a full-length novel. With the "Cultural Revolution" as the background, through the pure eyes of a young man, the book calmly describes the big lie of a history that was accomplished in vain with sweat, tears and even blood. It is full of in-depth reflections on history. It is shocking to read and leaves you speechless. With a writer's writing conscience and deep thinking.

The novel "Yin Tu" describes the story of a Mongolian herdsman, Saren, who moved from the grassland to the city after losing her husband, and finally returned to the grassland from the city. It reveals a series of social problems encountered by pastoral areas in the process of modernization, urbanization, and industrialization, and eulogizes the earth-shaking changes brought about by reform and opening up. The author deliberately created portraits of new herdsmen with distinctive personalities, represented by Saren, and entrusted them with the author's ideal of using social morality, the light of humanity, and the local spirit to resolve and absorb social contradictions and the ugliness of the world. The language is simple and natural, with a large number of folk proverbs and sayings interspersed, exuding a strong flavor of grassland life. This work won the 11th Literary Creation "Suolongga" Award of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

It fully demonstrates the different styles of his novels. In these novels, Mr. Wang Zengqi created small characters with distinctive personalities, and described folk customs with local characteristics in a lyrical style, with a simple and natural writing style.

"White Mountain" is a legendary fable about "lies" and a unique novel that Lu Yiping accumulated over more than 20 years of military life and spent 7 years carefully crafting. Set on the roof of the world, this novel combines iron-blooded stories with majestic geographical scenery. It tells the story of the persistent and slightly silly Ling Wudou who grew from an ordinary soldier to an advanced model. It shows the military life on the plateau and juxtaposes tiny humans with powerful nature to set off each other. It accurately expresses the hardships of soldiers in fulfilling their missions, thus demonstrating the dedication of soldiers. The novel consists of three parts, a middle part and a lower part, fourteen chapters, and 166 sections. The upper part is dust, a total of four chapters; the middle part is wind, a total of five chapters; the lower part is light, a total of five chapters.

Using realism to reveal the truth about the current home decoration market that "fraud is rampant, people are greedy, and every home decoration is like going through hell". The novel is based on real villa and apartment decoration experiences, covering various routines of "hard decoration", "simple decoration", "all-inclusive" and "single items" in the current Shanghai decoration market. Through the protagonist Teacher Zhu's "unique experience" of insisting on presiding over the whole process of decorating his own villa and controlling every decoration link to resist fraud, it shows a picture of the Qijia era in which "the owner challenges the unspoken rules, singles out hundreds of suppliers, battles of wits and courage, and is bruised and bruised". The work explores the characteristics and embarrassing status of the so-called "Chinese middle class"... The novel also satisfies readers' strong thirst for knowledge about decoration and rights protection because of its thorough market research and real and effective experience in decoration and rights protection.

After his parents successfully retired from running a gardening shop in London, they bought a small farm in his mother's hometown of Sweden and began a post-retirement pastoral life. I also moved in with my boyfriend, who I was in love with. Everything seemed to have a perfect ending, but this was just the beginning... Two years after my parents moved to the Swedish farm, my father called me and told me that my mother was in a very bad mental state. He refused treatment, escaped from the mental hospital and rushed to London. My father repeatedly emphasized that you don't need to believe every word your mother says because she is crazy. After my mother arrived in London, she told me an incredible story. Whose words are the lies? How far is the distance between reality and reality? What's even more painful is that no matter what difficulties I encounter, I can only face them by myself.

"Kafka on the Shore" is an important novel by Haruki Murakami, comparable to "Norwegian Wood" as a mature work. It has been translated into more than fifty languages ​​and has sold over one million copies. The book specially includes Haruki Murakami's first preface for Chinese readers. The book unfolds with two parallel lines in Murakami's unique style. One describes the young man "Kafka Tamura" who aspires to become the toughest person in the world and leaves his hometown to embark on a journey and encounters a series of strange events in an old library. The other describes an amnesiac old man who embarks on the road to escape after a bizarre murder incident and recovers his distant war memories with the help of car driver Hoshino. While constructing a magical real world and weaving exquisite and complex plots, the book also expresses concerns about the resurgence of Japanese militarism and reflects on Japan's cultural traditions. The translator, Professor Lin Shaohua, revised the translation and corrected some mistranslations and omissions. He also wrote a new translation preface and conducted an in-depth analysis of the meaning of the work.

This generation of young people can both devote themselves to work and withdraw from it. Company and society, career and life, work and relationships, they grow up in contradictions and are reborn after separation. Chen Mo only heard that after she has accumulated enough qualifications, at a certain moment, someone will come and tell her that you are or are not on the road to partner. Partner, the pinnacle position in a law firm, is certainly wonderful, but it is far away, like a mirage. You never know whether you will be lucky enough to reach the top of the mountain until you have enough qualifications. For Cheng Jiaojiao, consulting work must reach a higher level in two or three years, otherwise he will leave directly. Although there is hope, we are still walking on thin ice, and there is always a sword of Damocles hanging over our head, wondering which day it will fall. After being in the workplace for a long time, the two of them have already developed the ability to be invulnerable and impervious to favors and humiliations. The treatment of feelings has gradually become calm and relaxed, leaving and leaving at will. Eventually, everyone will fall to the earth from 30,000 feet.

The novel tells the story of three brothers growing up in the 1960s. A pair of twin brothers Liu Dong and Tamura were born into a difficult family in a difficult era. In order to survive and grow their two little lives, their biological mother endured the pain of separation and adopted them separately with their adoptive mother. From then on, they were separated from each other, two mothers, and two families, and they started two completely different lives.

Li Shanglong, the million-selling author, has launched a new novel in 2019. It explores the topic of "personality" and human nature, and directly addresses the pain points of this society. Close to current life - independent women, good men, top academics, because of the Internet, we have witnessed the masks of too many people. Character collapse, a phenomenon that frequently occurs in today's entertainment industry and life, has become a topic closely related to people's lives. A story that tears apart the mask of life, a book of soul torture. The three people who were favored by fate all found their true selves due to the collapse of their personalities. The ending is disappointing. This book is like a mirror, reflecting the truest version of you. The film and television series of the same name is about to start filming, setting off the era! I hope you can still accept yourself and be your true self after seeing the vanity of the world.

Created by Irish national treasure best-selling author Maeve Binchy, it is a companion volume to "The Worry Store" and "The Late Night Diner" and is highly recommended by "The Irish Times", "The New York Times" and "Oprah's Book Club". Chestnut Street is a collection of short stories by Maeve Binch. The stories of the protagonists seem to be different, but they are all inextricably linked to "Chestnut Street". All aspects of life come together to form a rich story line. To be honest, when it comes to storytelling skills, especially stories about love and warmth, almost no one can compare with Maeve.

Created by Irish national treasure best-selling author Maeve Binchy, it is a companion volume to "The Worry Store" and "The Late Night Diner" and is highly recommended by "The Irish Times", "The New York Times" and "Oprah's Book Club". "Everybody Loves Frankie" is a story about "love and redemption". It takes the ups and downs of the lives of the male and female protagonists as the main line, and the young protagonist Frankie as the intersection, presenting readers with a growth and transformation with a religious meaning. The male protagonist Noel accidentally learns that he actually has a daughter, which makes him at a loss as he is still inexperienced. Fortunately, the help of neighbors helped him overcome the difficulty, and little Frankie was able to grow up happily.

Created by Irish national treasure best-selling author Maeve Binchy, it is a companion volume to "The Worry Store" and "The Late Night Diner" and is highly recommended by "The Irish Times", "The New York Times" and "Oprah's Book Club". "Miss Queenie's Big Stone House" is a heart-warming long story. It depicts vivid Irish life scenes to readers by telling the life experiences of multiple protagonists. Binky gathers everyone at a vacation home called "The Stone House." There, people shared their experiences, enlightened each other, and ultimately established deep friendships.

Grace was an adopted child. She became pregnant out of wedlock when she was 16 years old. After giving birth to the child, she was forced to give it up for adoption. The pain in her heart made her decide to look for her biological parents, but she unexpectedly learned that she had two siblings. She plans to find her biological parents before finding them. With Grace's efforts, she contacted her younger sister Maya and older brother Joaquin. She thought it would be warm and touching for the long-lost siblings to meet each other, but in reality they were unfamiliar and awkward when they got along. However, the relationship between them is slowly changing...

This book is a novel based on the life in a military hospital in the 1980s. In a special period when the planned economy and the market economy are intertwined, the protagonist of the novel faces the confusion about love and career caused by the ideological constraints of an intellectual and the various conflicts in real life. He gradually improves himself through the confusions that are solved one by one, and finds the development direction of true friendship, love and career. Encourage modern people to get rid of all kinds of impetuosity and calmly deal with all kinds of confusions in life.

The novel "Typhoon Season" takes the fight against typhoons "Haiwang" and "Sili" as the entry point, and uses the development of the fictional coastal city of Beiling as the background. It details the colorful stories of Zhang Ziqing, Tang Yatai, Chen Jingming and other protagonists working hard at the grassroots level. In the face of the approaching typhoon, the protagonists work conscientiously and always rush to the front line of danger. They are not afraid of sacrifice and are unyielding in spite of setbacks. They guard the land they manage with a high degree of responsibility and an unyielding spirit of moving forward. The author has rich accumulation and conscious reflection on realistic themes. To resist typhoons is to resist natural disasters and to resist corruption. This dual-text narrative has solidly created a group of individual, deep and typical images of grassroots workers, which is very real and on-the-spot. The story of the work is clever, the conception is exquisite, and the connotation is rich. It deeply explores the character's psychology and reflects the author's superb narrative ability and solid language skills, especially the unique, humorous and witty accent.

This book is a collection of short stories, a review of the author's memory of his hometown, a spiritual revisit, and a record of personal spiritual growth and spiritual autobiography. The characters in this book are all relatives and neighbors living around the author. Through his interpretation of them, the author is exploring the joys and sorrows of individual human existence, their survival value, and his concern for their living conditions. In the author's opinion, birth or death, or the endless rebirth, seems to be the original state of human existence. From this collection of novels, we can also see the life and development of rural areas in Fujian and the simple style of the last villages that are about to disappear.

"A Wandering Beggar" tells the story of the chaotic gangster life of a group of lower-class workers. The novel begins with an earthquake disaster, and a baby girl with a long tail is born. This baby girl with a long tail is named Curly. She is undoubtedly a collection of misery in life, and her existence undoubtedly reflects the ugliest features and essence of life. Laifu is not a character throughout the whole book, but he and Curly Mao depended on each other for a time, which made Maomao's life still show some warmth. Then a group of Luman, sinister, simple and vulgar guys appeared one after another: Adan, Monk Zhao, Wang Laofi, Wandering Mouse, Black Gangtou, Guoxiang... These people formed a mighty team of lumpen proletarians. In today's terms, they are a complete "vulnerable group". The author uses the gorgeous coat of language to wrap up the ugly body, squeezes high-concentration literary qualities into the disadvantaged groups, squeezes into the original ecological life of China, and describes the living conditions of the "vulnerable groups" at the bottom to the extreme.

This novel was written from the late Qing Dynasty to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. The story is divided into upper and lower parts, which were also written in two different periods. The general content of the story is: Xu Shaolong's family won the Mishi Pier due to a life-and-death battle with his father. Although his family was very powerful, Xu Shaolong's love was not what he wanted. His fiancée Zhang Xiaoyun, who had been engaged for many years, actually fell in love with the progressive teacher Wang Haoran, and the three of them had an emotional entanglement that lasted for many years.

The novel tells the story of the ghost of a girl who died suddenly due to love, drifting between the yin and yang realms. In her eyes, all the legends in the world are revealed. But it's not a ghost story, that's just a shell of it. Behind this, there is a bizarre love and in-depth thinking on the eternal theme of death. There are some unexpected clues and answers in the novel. This is a reference book on the philosophy of life, death and love, and a strange one at the same time.

This book is a youth inspirational novel, which is the author's precious memory of his past college career 10 years later. The author believes that there is always a path in everyone's memory, where the gentle stamens of spring, the cicadas of summer, the flying of autumn, and the ice buds of winter are hidden in each step. Even though the time is mottled, the sounds and colors are fading, and even though the neon lights are dodging, you and I are still smiling brightly, whirling, and clear at the same time. Maybe you are living on such a "road" - it is a busy city, but it is also quiet, it is the constant flow of vehicles speeding by in the morning and evening rush hours, it is the squeaking sound of bicycle pedals in the early morning, it is the anxiety of being late for class and the wind is blowing under your feet, it is the calmness of waiting for the sunrise and sunset with a cup of tea and a book in the library. Imperial College Road has the most beautiful scenery in the Fourth Ring Road, the courage of the eight universities to embrace all rivers, and the most unforgettable university memories. The work is elegant in style, lively in language, story-telling and readable, and has strong publication value.

The novel adopts humorous, satirical and comical techniques, using the vision, hearing and feeling of a cat. It takes the daily life of the protagonist, middle school teacher Jinno Kusami, as the main line, interspersed with the conflicts of neighbor capitalist Kaneda who fails to marry a girl and plots revenge on Kusami, making it laugh. It explores the empty spiritual life of intellectuals in the Meiji era, and satirizes them for claiming to be noble but doing nothing; being dissatisfied with reality but unable to resist; being mediocre and boring, but denouncing the contradictory character of the world, and lashing out at the snobbish, vulgar, and cruel nature of Kaneda and other bourgeois figures and their accomplices. The novel has ingenious conception, exaggerated description, flexible structure and distinctive artistic features.

The entanglement between literati and businessmen runs through many careers and lives. In fact, such contradictions and divisions can be used to explain the words and deeds of many businessmen of all kinds. Regardless of whether they are engaged in private lending or not, most of them are like this: while criticizing corruption, they do not hesitate to deal with business troubles. He chooses to pay bribes; he is a good husband and father at home, and often or occasionally plays a role as a playboy when he goes out; he is a boastful moral guardian in front of everyone, but secretly he is only interested in profit; privately, he talks about justice and the future, and what he holds high in his hand is "morality is nothing, and profit is the banner of all actions"!

This book is the author's second novel. The protagonist Shao Feng has a dream for the city and failed to pass the technical secondary school entrance examination after repeating his studies twice. Due to family circumstances, he had no choice but to give up his studies, leave home and go to work in the city. His poor background did not affect his kindness, integrity, and simplicity. His willingness to help others without asking for anything in return earned him the appreciation of a city boss by chance. Facing the turning point in his life, he was down-to-earth, diligent and enterprising, and since then reversed the direction of his life, moving towards success step by step. The language of this book is simple, the story has twists and turns, it promotes the main theme, is youthful and inspiring, and has certain publication value.

When Phil's father was alive, he lived a happy life, but everything changed after his father died. One day, Phil's half-brother Jonas hit him with a snowball. Phil fought back, but was unfairly scolded by his stepmother. In order to achieve a despicable purpose, Phil's stepmother, who didn't like him, revealed a secret that his father, who had been deceased for half a year, was not his biological father, which shocked the young Phil. It turns out that he was adopted into this home. His biological father left him in this home when he was 3 years old and never returned. Everything before Phil's eyes changed completely. He no longer wanted to rely on his stepmother to live, and decided to go to New York alone to explore the world. At the age of 16, he got on a train to New York, rushed to a new and unfamiliar world, and began his unusual and exciting career of struggle...

The novel takes Atlanta and a nearby plantation as the story setting, depicting the life of American southerners before and after the Civil War. The work depicts the images of many southerners of that era, of which Scarlett, Rhett, Ashley, Melanie and others who occupy the central position are typical representatives. Their customs and etiquette, words and deeds, spiritual concepts, and political attitudes, through the love entanglement of Scarlett and Rhett Butler as the main line, successfully reproduced the Civil War led by Lincoln and the social life of the southern United States.

Joe is a country boy who lives a secluded life with his uncle. He had a good friend named Ned, and the two of them often went out to play and explore together and established a deep friendship. However, one day an unfortunate disaster broke Joe's peaceful life. A lightning struck down a large tree close to his uncle's cabin. The tree fell on the cabin, crushed it, and seriously injured his uncle who was in the house to death. Before his death, his uncle told Joe about a blue box, but died before he could finish, leaving an unsolved mystery. As a result, Joe lost his support. With that secret, he walked into society alone and began to seek a life...

More than a hundred years ago, American writer Upton Sinclair wrote a book that shocked the United States. Upton Sinclair, like his Chinese counterpart Xia Yan, personally went to the slaughterhouse to "lurk" for seven weeks and truthfully recorded all the horrific facts, which directly triggered a strong response from the American public on food safety and hygiene, and ultimately alarmed the U. S. Government, directly promoting the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Administration Act and the establishment of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration. The latter became the patron saint of American food safety over the next hundred years. This social effect was so good that the author later joked: "I wanted to touch the public's hearts, but unexpectedly hit their stomachs." This is actually a book about fate and struggle.

"Gadfly" was written by the Irish female writer Egel Lillian Voynich. This book describes the life of Gadfly, an Italian revolutionary. The protagonist, Arthur, a naive and naive patriotic young man, was misunderstood by his revolutionary comrades, so he pretended to commit suicide by drowning in a river and fled to South America. Thirteen years later, when he returned to his hometown with a disability, the painful experience had tempered him into a determined revolutionary. He participated in the struggle against the Austrian rulers and fought for the independence and reunification of the country, and finally gave his life for it. The novel touches on the colorful themes of struggle, faith, and sacrifice.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" is a diary written by Anne Frank, a German Jew. It is a record of her life and emotions while hiding in a secret room. As a growing teenager, she confided in her diary the confusion of constant conflicts with her mother and her sexual curiosity. At the same time, the record of 25 months of hiding and terror-filled life in a secret room also makes "Annie's Diary" an eyewitness report on the suffering life of the people under German occupation.

The story of "The Three Musketeers" takes place in the era of French King Louis XIII. Cardinal Richelieu was in power for a while, and power struggles inside and outside the court were constantly taking place. D'Artagnan, a young provincial nobleman, comes to Paris and joins the command of Mr. Treville, the commander of the musketry battalion. On the way, he meets the musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and they become life-and-death friends in a conflict. In the complicated political whirlpool, these four partners met Richelieu's confidant - Milady, a woman as beautiful as a peach and as poisonous as a snake. The two sides competed repeatedly. D'Artagnan and his partners escaped from desperate situations again and again, thwarting Richelieu's conspiracy.

"The Wapshaw Scandal" is the sequel to "The Wapshaw Chronicle". The Wapshaw family of St. Botolphus left their New England village and scattered to various places. They either relied on their temperamental authority, or fell into the abyss of alcoholism and lust, unable to extricate themselves, or were held responsible for tax evasion by the United States Internal Revenue Service and fled everywhere... "The Wapshaw Scandal" has a grand but tender vision. The book is full of pitiful characters who are subject to unpredictable fates, but most importantly, they are fellow prisoners of human nature. Cheever treats them not with cold ridicule, but with knowing sympathy.

In "The Wapshaw Chronicles", get to know the Wapshaw family of St. Botolphus: Captain Leander Wapshaw, a respectable old sailor, whose only wish at the funeral is that someone read a piece of Shakespeare; his wife Sarah, whose fantasies about the future will become reality, run the town. Everything big and small; the eldest son Moses, who loves women, unexpectedly survived a desperate career after an accident; the second son Coverley married a beautiful wife, but one day she came home and she disappeared... In this novel written sixty years ago, those experiences seem to have happened to us when we read it today.

Shortlisted for the 10th Mao Dun Literary Award, "A Village of One Man" is a new novel written by Liu Liangcheng for many years. It is a text with unique charm and an unprecedented reading adventure. The Bisha Kingdom in the east and the Helle Kingdom in the west were at odds with each other and started a decades-long war. Letters between the two countries were cut off, and folk messengers became a secret profession, playing an important role in conveying information between the two places. The messenger in the novel is Ku, a famous translator from the Bisha Kingdom who speaks dozens of languages. He is entrusted to carry a little female donkey from Bisha to Helle as a "message". Ku said, I only carry messages, not donkeys. The client said that donkey also has a word. This is how the story begins... In the sound world where humans and all things coexist, the sound of wind, the braying of donkeys, human voices, cooking smoke, the crowing of cocks and the barking of dogs are all conveying words to the distance. During the time when various languages ​​​​passed silently, no one was aware of it, but both gods and ghosts appeared. The little female donkey Xie can hear ghosts speak, can see the shapes and colors of all sounds, knows how to serve others and how to guess people's hearts. So, one person and one donkey, carrying the task of "passing a message", crossed the battlefield, crossed the desert between languages, and witnessed many life, death and incredible things.

When we are young, we boldly use the word "love" without taking on any responsibility or thinking about the future. "The Moons of Jupiter" is a collection of representative short stories by Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. It contains eleven quiet and shining short stories. Various characters transform in the flow of time and reflect on their past selves with anger, regret and infinite sympathy. The two people who have long passed the age where they are prone to confusion and infatuation, and want to get married rationally, have a rift and change. While they are busy having an affair with a single female colleague, their only son is killed in a car accident, and the relationship between the two parties is facing a huge change. The old father who originally planned to welcome his death calmly suddenly decided to undergo heart surgery to prolong his life, and "I" felt ripples in my heart...

"The Moon and Sixpence" is one of Maugham's representative masterpieces. The story is partly based on the life of French post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. Stock exchange broker Strickland's heart was burning with an unquenchable desire for art, so he abandoned his stable family life and wealthy economic environment, and left London alone to pursue his painting ideals in Paris and Tahiti. After experiencing a series of incredible twists and turns, he finally found the perfection of art and completed the sublimation of life. The game between survival and ideals, the coexistence of creation and destruction, are vividly demonstrated through the legendary experience of an artistic genius.

"Things I've Always Wanted to Tell You" tells about those unspeakable loves, perhaps the abnormal love that has been buried deep in the heart for decades and cannot be expressed, perhaps the truth about the love affair that is completely different from what the husband thought, the disgust for a brother who was not talented but was favored, or recounting the past events after the relationship broke up... The lives of ordinary people have created many stories with depth and tension. In the slow flow of time, waves rise and undercurrents surge.

"The Count of Monte Cristo" mainly describes a story of revenge that took place during the French Bourbon Dynasty. Dantes, the young first mate of the Pharaon ship, was entrusted by the captain to deliver a letter to the Napoleonic party before his death. He was framed by two despicable villains and the sinister prosecutor Villefort, and was put on death row, depriving him of the beautiful sunshine, love and future that should have belonged to him. Eighteen years later, he escaped from prison with the secret told to him by his fellow inmate Faria before his death. After finding the treasure hidden by Faria, he became extremely rich. From then on, he changed his name to the Count of Monte Cristo. After careful planning, he repaid his benefactor, punished three enemies who wanted to kill him, and repaid his kindness to his benefactor.

"The Waves" is Woolf's work at the peak of her creative power and was published in 1931. This highly poetic, abstract, and stylized experimental work does not have a story in the strict sense, but is more like a musical work composed of nine movements: each introduction is an exquisite prose poem, using the ebb and flow of the sun and waves to correspond to the ups and downs of life; following each introduction are the momentary inner monologues of six highly formalized characters without surnames in their respective life stages-from childhood, studenthood, youth, middle age, to old age. The introduction and the main text map each other, opening up unprecedented and nuanced channels for the readers' senses, and getting closer to the essence of life, time, consciousness and feeling to the maximum extent. This is a work that occupies an important position in modern literature and palaces. To this day, it still stirs our souls with its exquisite text structure and poetic style.

"Where Angels Fear to Go" is the first novel by E. M. Forster, the great British novelist of the 20th century, and is his most important and famous work. The title of the book is taken from the second half of a poem by the English poet Pope. The deliberately omitted part is "The fool breaks in." Through the description of several love affairs and marriages, the work shows the sharp opposition between the dull British middle-class society and the vibrant secular life of Italy. The theme of the song is to break through the shackles of secular prejudice and traditional morality, to stimulate the "underdeveloped heart" bound by tradition, and to bravely pursue a natural and honest life. The plot arrangement of the work is neat and clever, and the characterization of the characters and the description and capture of the momentary emotions and moods are meticulous and penetrating. It is a masterpiece of novels about worldly affairs and human nature.