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This book is a collection of short stories and a companion volume to the famous work "The Martian Chronicles" by science fiction master Ray Bradbury. It contains 18 Bradbury's Mars stories written in the 1960s and 1970s, continuing the fantastic imagination and poetic style of "The Martian Chronicles". "The Martian Chronicles" focuses on the first encounter between humans and Mars, while this book focuses on depicting humans' in-depth exploration after adapting to the Martian environment, the conflict between the two civilizations, and the identity dilemma, and adds narratives from the perspective of Martians. Some people are gradually assimilated by the Martian civilization, abandoning the inhabited towns and becoming dark-skinned and golden-eyed Martians... A fantastic and absurd drama is staged here. Mars is like a mirror, reflecting the deep fears and desires of human nature. At a time when topics such as space travel and Mars immigration are attracting more and more attention, this book not only echoes the science fiction classic "The Martian Chronicles", but also gives this theme a new connotation.

This book is the sequel to "Brooklyn" and continues Alice's life after she married Tony, had children, and moved to Long Island. Their relationship is in crisis, and Alice returns home to Ireland, unwilling to raise Tony's illegitimate child with his affair partner. There, she reunited with her old best friend Nancy and her old lover Jim, but she didn't know that the two had already planned to get married. Jim and Alice's old love rekindles, and the story becomes more complicated... The story is narrated alternately from the perspectives of the three protagonists, and characters from the "Enniscorthy Universe" appear in turn. The entire story revolves around love, family and personal choices, profoundly depicting the complexity of human nature and the multifaceted nature of emotions.

Sakumi's father died suddenly of cerebral thrombosis, and her sister Mayu died in a car accident while drunk driving after taking sleeping pills. Therefore, she formed a strange new family with her mother, her half-brother Yuio, her cousin Mikiko, and her mother's childhood best friend Junko, living under the same roof. One day, Sakumi hit her head on her way to work and lost part of her memory. After that, she began to date her sister's boyfriend Ryuichiro, but the memory of her sister Mayu always lingered around them. At the same time, her younger brother Yuono starts to skip school for some reason, her mother has a new boyfriend, and her long-lost student friend Eiko suddenly breaks into her life... Although sadness is inevitable, Sakumi gradually discovers that time is as beautiful as nectar.

This book is hailed as one of the greatest literary works of Russian literature in the 20th century. It uses the devil's visit to Moscow as a clue to integrate magic, history and reality into three time-spaces. They are independent of each other in narrative and logically causal. Incomparably wild magic, true and false history, true love and ordinary reality are intertwined and stacked to form an extremely exquisite world. The author uses a playful writing style to outline the absurdity of the world, and reveals the complex relationship between good and evil, love and hate, truth and lies in the symbiotic opposition between good and evil, love and hate, truth and lies. The work breaks through the shackles of time and space and has eternal artistic charm, becoming another peak in the history of Russian literature.

"Dead people are heavier than broken hearts." This book is Chandler's first novel, and the tough-guy detective Philip Marlowe makes his debut. Sternwood, an eccentric old rich man, entrusts Marlowe to investigate a blackmail case. But the two daughters of the Sternwood family have always prevented Marlowe from taking action. A homosexual who rents and sells obscene books, a ruthless casino owner, a greedy hooligan... Who is behind the scenes? The successive deaths have made the case more complicated and confusing. What secrets does the Sternwood family have?

This book is a famous work by Osamu Dazai, and it is also an epistolary novel. "Skylark", a young man who went to a mountain health sanatorium due to tuberculosis, was terrified of his impending death. On the other hand, he was fighting the disease in the company of friends with distinctive personalities and backgrounds, striving to become a "new man." There, the sweet and sour relationship with the two vital nurses - Sister Zhu and Azheng, and the sudden grief caused by the death of his partner due to illness, all made him emotionally ups and downs. He continued to meticulously record these daily mental fluctuations in letters to close friends. However, "Skylark" has always maintained a positive worldview similar to Greek mythology - in the corner of Pandora's box, which spreads misfortune to the world, a small gemstone engraved with the word "Hope" was found. "Pandora's Box" is the sunny side of Osamu Dazai's writing.

This book is a new novel by the famous contemporary German writer Bernhard Schlink. It tells the story of Birgitte, a female college student in East Germany who ran away from home with the help of her boyfriend Kaspar in the 1960s for the sake of love and freedom. She later married Kaspar... It was not until Birgitte passed away suddenly that Kaspar discovered how much his wife had paid to hide her secrets. He read the diaries and novel manuscripts left by his wife, tracked down her secrets, and searched for her relatives and friends in what is now eastern Germany. There he finally found the daughter's family that his wife had hidden for many years, and he and his "granddaughter" Siglen began a new life. The novel tells the fate of small people in the torrent of history, the dialogue between people who live in a world where they are strangers to each other, the current ideological differences in Germany and Europe, and the path of young people.

This book collects the poems of Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Miłosz from 1931 to 1981. According to the year of creation and publication, it includes "Poems of the Frozen Period" (1933), "Salvation" (1945) and " "The Light of Day" (1953), "The Enchanted Guqiao" (1965), "The City without a Name" (1969), "Where the Sun Rises and Where It Sets" (1974) and "Ode to the Pearl" (1981) and other 129 poems. There are long poems with rich lyricism and description, as well as fierce and indignant ridicule and criticism. During this period, Milosz witnessed many historical events and experienced life experiences such as moving to France and settling in the United States. He wrote famous works such as "The Gift", "Piazza Fiore" and "The World".

This book collects the poems of Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Miłosz from 1981 to 2001. According to the year of creation and publication, 207 of Miłosz's poems are included, including "Memories of Homeland" (1986), "Chronicle" (1985-1987), "The Other Side" (1991), "Facing the River" (1995), "The Puppy on the Road" (1998) and "This" (2000). In the poetry of the 1980s, poets recalled the people who had passed away and the inaccessible homeland, and pondered our common destiny, but "still could not learn to narrate appropriately and calmly." After entering the 1990s, poetry included conversations with other people, describing the world coldly, and the passion between the lines remained, continuing the discussion of good and evil, truth and freedom. The poet blends personal experience with historical perspective to reveal a revelatory insight.

This book is a collection of short stories published by Beauvoir in 1967. Among Beauvoir's published essays, novels, autobiographies and letters, it belongs to her later creation. The three short stories collected all have women as the protagonists, which can be said to be the three types of women's experiences in modern society. Among them, "The Age of Sensible" tells the story of middle-aged professional women's dissatisfaction and anxiety about themselves, their husbands, and their son's marriage and career prospects; "Monologue" is the whole story of a single mother, and underneath the neurotic words is the pain of her little daughter's suicide; "Exhausted Woman" uses the form of a diary to show the psychological journey of a housewife coping with her husband's extramarital affair. Beauvoir depicts three women in crisis: one considers herself a good mother and tries to control everything; one is full of resentment and worry about her family and children; one is abandoned by her husband and is at a loss as to what to do.

If you were given eternal life, would it be a blessing or a curse? In the Middle Ages, Fosca, the monarch of the Italian city-state, was a ruler who worked hard to govern, but he felt that he could not govern a country well in a short life and hoped to live forever. He accidentally got the elixir, and after taking it, he got rid of the threat of death. He sang all the way and made his country the overlord of Italy, but instead it attracted the invasion of France. He felt that a divided country could not last long and must control a unified universe, so he dedicated his country to the Holy Roman Empire and acted as the emperor's counselor. But instead of building a super-empire as he wished, the emperor was busy suppressing rebellions everywhere, and eventually the empire fell apart. Fosca later came to America and Canada, and also participated in the French Revolution and the British labor movement. Finally he realized the true meaning of life...

In the first article, he defends the Marquis de Sade. Beauvoir starts from the privileged class's understanding of their situation, taking the old aristocracy as an example: the aristocrats defend their rights without considering the rationality of this right. Sade was born into a noble family, but he had the courage to take on his own uniqueness, violated the moral standards followed by the nobles, and used the most extreme method to demand his own pleasure as an absolute law. Although he failed in the end, his flamboyant behavior revealed that the egoism of the privileged class could only be wishful thinking and could not give itself legitimacy in the eyes of everyone. The second article "Merleau-Ponty and the Pseudo-Sartre Doctrine" is also written from the perspective of the privileged class. In the French environment of the 1950s and 1960s, some intellectuals stood on the side of the greatest interests, tried to confuse the general interests and the interests of the bourgeoisie, and had a debate with Sartre. Beauvoir defended Sartre and wrote this article.

This book is a collection of literary criticism. Collects the manuscript of Colm Tóibín's lecture at Emory University, which was published in the London Review of Books. Tóibín offers an up-close and illuminating interpretative study of Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives and works of three men-William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus Joyce-and their intricate and far-reaching relationships with their complex sons. Through the stories of these three fathers and sons, Tóibín narrates the Irish resistance to British cultural hegemony, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the outstanding contributions made by these complex and outstanding authors to the literary world.

Some people have had a smooth sailing since childhood and successfully obtained admission to prestigious schools; some people dropped out of school and returned to school; some people fell into despair after dropping out. Different experiences and backgrounds shape different personalities and outlook on life. Eight young people of similar age entered "society" with uneasiness and made their own choices amidst troubles and confusion...

This is a translation of a German literary classic. It collects the classic works of German writers represented by Goethe in the 18th and 19th centuries, including novels, essays and biographies. These works mainly reflect the European social reality before and after the French Revolution in the Middle Ages, criticizing the hypocrisy, indifference and ugliness of human nature in Western society. It mainly includes Goethe's novel "From Enemies to Couple", Hoffmann's novel "Miss Scudel", Kafka's novel "Country Doctor", Schopenhauer's essay "The Voice of the Heart", Nietzsche's essay "The Wisdom of Life" and Zweig's biographies "The Marriage of the Princess" and "The King's Troubles", etc.

"Entering Shu" is a diary-style travelogue written by Lu You in the Southern Song Dynasty. It records what he saw and heard on his way from Shanyin to Kuizhou to serve as a judge, covering the geographical features, historical sites, customs and customs along the way. The writing is fresh and has both literary and historical value. ?

"Change of Love", written by Wu Jianren, a late Qing Dynasty writer, takes the society of the late Qing Dynasty as the background and tells the story of the tragic love between scholar Qin Baifeng and the girl Kou Anan. The two broke through the feudal shackles and made a private life, but they fell apart due to war, misunderstanding and real pressure. The novel uses love and tribulation to describe the changes in the world, revealing the struggle of individual emotions between fate and ethics in turbulent times. It is a typical work of modern social romance novels.

Even if his knife is extremely sharp, it can't cut off the inseparable love. Even though his knife was extremely cold, it couldn't withstand the melting of tender, affectionate tears. When the sword is unsheathed again, I have no choice but to ask the sky where my heart is.

Strip off the personality, artificially create a replica, give good to those who do evil, give demon seeds to those who do good... What? You say I am a breeder? "NONONO, it's just an efficient allocation of resources. As long as I become stronger with the help of resources, I will have the ability to make you stronger too. This is a win-win situation!" Facing Lin Yan's speech, his teammates sent out cordial greetings one after another. Zheng Zha: "I'm really underestimated, my love is endless!" Zhan Lan: "Tell me about the Five Divine Dragons! Fusion Summon!" Zero point: "Eat me and you will gain access to all things!" Zhao Yingkong: "Endless God of War! Come out!" ... Traveling through Yuanzu Infinity, Death Comes 1. Faced with abstract teammates and unknown horror movies, Lin Yan decided to become the first rich man of the Zhongzhou Team and save the Infinite World starting from the Zhongzhou Team. The beginning of the magic network, the dragon of the gods. Beginning and end, God above God. Legends are just stepping stones, and gods are no more than small goals. With the help of the rich, Lin Yan will eventually be crowned, and the Kingdom of God will cover all the heavens and worlds, becoming the god of the multiverse. [Note: This book is a reset of the previous book. The enhanced route is still the magic network spell, but it will weaken the gameplay. The protagonist's character is completely complete at the beginning. The growth flow is still too difficult for an amateur like me, so I return to the comfort zone of cool writing.

"Lin'er Bao" is a long novel about worldly affairs in the vernacular of the Qing Dynasty. It tells the story of a tofu-grinding villager named Lian who is charitable and charitable. After encountering an immortal and pointing out a good place, Lian Qing gives birth to his noble son Lian Qing. Lian Qing and the famous lady Xing Zhaohua pursue the freedom of marriage and finally get married after many twists and turns. The marriage of Lian Qing and Mao Xiaoyan is also interspersed. The plot is twists and turns. It not only has the characteristics of a novel about gifted scholars and beautiful women, but also encourages good and forbids evil, promotes the idea of ​​cause and effect, and touches on the world's human feelings.

"The Strange Case of the Bronze Bell": More than 20 years ago, a murder case occurred in Guangzhou. Why did the victim come to Puyang to complain? In an abandoned Taoist temple, a withered skeleton was found under a heavy bronze bell. However, Duke Dee, who came to investigate, was trapped by the murderer inside the bell. The air is getting thinner, how can they escape from danger and avoid death? "The Strange Case of the Imperial Pearl": What is the relationship between a bodhi forest with overgrown grass and no one who dares to approach it, a dilapidated temple of the River Goddess Empress, an abandoned and haunted house, and an imperial pearl that was stolen a hundred years ago and caused many people to suffer unjustly? What's the use of stealing an imperial pearl that cannot be sold within the Tang Dynasty? Murder cases occur one after another, and it seems that Judge Dee has met an extremely cunning opponent this time.

"The Strange Case of the Labyrinth": Lanfang, located on the border, is in a state of depression. The county government hall is dusty and dilapidated, but the magistrate's residence behind the county government office is neat and clean. Why is it so strange? Why did a high-ranking official in Beijing with a reputation for integrity suddenly resolutely resign and spend his remaining years in seclusion in Lanfang? Everything is troubled, and suddenly it is heard that the barbarians are about to attack, but Duke Di's trustworthy soldiers are less than fifty, and Lanfang City is in danger... "The Strange Case of Ziyun Temple": A birthday greeting rosewood box bought from an antique shop, but there is a piece of paper asking for help. In one night, the fifty ingots of royal gold in the treasury were turned into a pile of lead bars. They were left hanging for a year without finding anything. The murderer was approaching step by step, and Judge Dee's assistant was almost killed twice. Why are temples that were so popular in the past now abandoned and desolate and become a stage for evil?

"The Strange Case of the Iron Needle": The case of a headless naked corpse suddenly occurred in Beizhou, which has been quiet for a long time. Is this related to the disappearance of the daughter of a wealthy businessman? How could a respectable and upright boxer with great martial arts skills die in a bathhouse? Is the scent of jasmine tea a clue to the murderer? "The Strange Case of Liuyuan Pictures": Plague is rampant in the capital. It used to be a prosperous capital, but now it is a dead city. Only corpse collectors dressed in black walked the streets. There is a folk song in the market: "Mei, Hu, and Ye are three generations of nobles. Wealth does not last long..." The Mei and Ye clans suffered disasters one after another. Will the Hu clan follow the popular rumors and come to the end of the road? How does any of this relate to a juggler? "Guangzhou Strange Case": An important member of the imperial court disappeared in Guangzhou with his identity concealed. Is it related to the rumor that the Arabs are inciting a rebellion? Judge Di, who is a master in solving cases, was ordered to come to investigate secretly. The only clue was a cricket, but the blind girl who captured the cricket also disappeared...

This is the unprecedented real prosperous Tang Dynasty! The whole book covers all aspects of the Tang Dynasty's judiciary, politics, criminal law, officialdom, administration, diplomacy, industry and commerce, education, culture, religion, customs, people's sentiments, and social life. It connects together a picture of ancient Chinese social life ranging from scholar-bureaucrats, wealthy businessmen, loan sharks, to beggars, thieves, prostitutes, etc. "The Mysterious Case of the Golden Painted Screen", "The Mysterious Case of the Jade Beads", "The Mysterious Case of the Red Pavilion", "The Mysterious Case of the Black Fox"...

This collection of speeches by the famous Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca contains ten important speeches in his life. The content covers soul, poetry, deep songs, flamenco, lullabies, etc., Which are very important in Lorca's literary creation and literary concepts, and are also inescapable themes in Spanish national literature and art. Lorca's speeches are as wonderful and moving as his literary creations. These speeches are not impromptu. Lorca does not agree with impromptu speeches. He prefers to write speeches in advance, revise them carefully, and then recite them, trying to make what he says and what he writes have the same attitude. He treats recitation as a battle, not only to convey ideas, but also to convey emotions.

"Strange House Mystery": Can you spot a murder from a house plan? "Strange House Mystery 2": Can you tell that this is a house built specifically for killing people? "Strange Painting Mystery": Can you deduce the truth of the murder case based on these paintings? Yuxue writes genre literature in a subversive and innovative way, and his works are often filled with an inexplicable and real eerie atmosphere.

Nico, who is only 12 years old, is suspected of being the murderer of his missing mother. But when he was found, he didn't speak or even blink - he had lost his memory. Child hypnotist Gerber finally finds the key to make Nico speak, only to discover that there is another person living in the boy's mind. It turned out that a child hypnotist who was as powerful as Gerber hypnotized Nico and told a dusty past event through the boy's mouth. Like Nico, this anonymous hypnotist was accused of parricide when he was young, but the child hypnotist who treated him at that time - Gerber's father - insisted that the story he told himself to defend himself was a lie. Now, he is using Nico to retell his story to Gerber. Is it to vent his hatred of not being believed as a child, or is he doing it for other reasons...

In this Phoenix Pond and Dragon Pavilion Forest, I once dreamed of yellow beams and watched the rise and fall of five thousand years. That rotten peach mountain is not named Sun, the pigs roar in Fuling Cave, and the owls perch in the ginseng and fruit trees. At sunset in the Western Mountains, there are cows, horses and snake gods. The young man became addicted to chanting and told a series of nonsense about immortality. ........................ The story of how a Taoist boy transforms into an immortal and ascends to immortality through cultivation. (Attachment: You can read the eight-thousand-jun excellent old book "Xianlu" with the same taste. You can find it by clicking on the author's avatar)

"The Myth of Sisyphus" is a comprehensive reflection on the meaning of life by Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus. It contains the content of four series: "The Myth of Sisyphus", "Absurd Reasoning", "Absurd Man" and "Absurd Creation". Among them, "The Myth of Sisyphus" mainly revolves around Sisyphus in Greek mythology. He never stops pushing the boulder to the top of the mountain, and the boulder rolls down again unchanged. In Albert Camus's view, the struggle of pushing the boulder up the mountain is enough to enrich people's hearts. For Albert Camus, the essence of life is how to live with the pain you are born with. This book directly faces the dilemma of human existence and has become an influential philosophical essay in Western literature in the 20th century.

This book is a classic literary masterpiece with a high literary status. The novel uses the life of French Impressionist painter Paul as the material. It describes Strickland, an originally ordinary securities broker. From beginning to end, it revolves around the theme of Strickland's strange life and explores what he is pursuing. The story unfolds through the description of such a geek who is obsessed with art and does not understand the world, as well as the characters such as Stroeve, Blanche, and Etta who closely surround him. By narrating this development process, the author deeply explores the contradictions and interactions between life and art, and explores thought-provoking issues such as the relationship between personality and genius, and the contradiction between artists and society.

Dominique, a 20-year-old female college student, came to Paris alone from the provinces. Her studies and boyfriend were both good, but she couldn't stop the boredom deep inside her heart, until she met her boyfriend's traveler uncle Luc, a depressed smart man, a 40-year-old mature man, a similar person. So little girls like Dominic were inevitably attracted. She fell into the only passion in twenty years and spent two real weeks with Luc in Cannes, but in the end everything was over. The time they spent together only turned into a record, turned into some kind of smile, and the girl's heart grew old in one summer.

In the tide of the times, the contradiction between the individual's persistent pursuit of "stability" and the capriciousness of fate; reflection on the reshaping and return of family, marriage, and personal values ​​under the drastic changes in society.

This book is a minimalist record of Thoreau's life when he lived alone by Walden Pond. It depicts the natural scenery of Walden Pond with beautiful brushstrokes. It records what the author saw, heard and thought over more than two years, and expresses his profound thinking about man and nature, society and life. Since its first publication in 1854, "Walden" has broken the limitations of time and space and continued to influence the world. In the field of literature, it created and triggered the writing trend of natural literature. In the field of philosophy, Thoreau and Emerson are urged to be regarded as the two giants of transcendentalism. It also directly gave birth to the idea of ​​​​environmental protection and is the true origin of the contemporary minimalist aesthetics and lifestyle that are in the ascendant. The general illustrated edition contains a large number of fine illustrations, intuitively presenting Thoreau's philosophical thoughts, allusions in the text and related natural history knowledge, and pioneeringly provides a set of "knowledge encyclopedia" that is essential for understanding "Walden".

This book is a four-act tragedy created by Albert Camus. It is based on the life of the ancient Roman tyrant Caligula and profoundly reflects Camus' existentialism and absurd philosophy. In the play, Caligula begins to question the meaning and value of life after experiencing the shock of the death of his beloved lover. He found that personality, dignity, and even pain were meaningless in the face of death, which triggered his extreme use of power and destruction of the existing order. He became a tyrant who wantonly trampled on the original human system, good and evil, and emotions, trying to find truth and eternity through power and expose the hypocrisy of the world. Through the image of Caligula, Camus explores the way humans deal with themselves in the face of an absurd world, showing the destructive consequences of abuse of power and personal madness. At the same time, he also put forward profound thoughts about human existence and freedom, and explored how to find personal meaning and value in an absurd world.

[Single female protagonist] [Qian Renxue] [Wujiangzhi] Previous name: "Douluo: Revenge of the Gods from the Death of Qian Renxue God" Ye Li became an eighty-ninth level Soul Douluo at the age of sixteen and became an elder of the Wuhun Palace. It's a pity that he was born at the wrong time, as the decisive battle at Jialing Pass had already arrived. Faced with a situation of inevitable defeat, Qian Renxue sealed him away with tears. Five years later. When Ye Li broke through the seal and returned, the entire continent had completely changed. "The Wuhun Palace was destroyed, Bibi Dong died in battle, Qian Renxue's divine throne shattered and disappeared..." Standing on the ruins of Jialing Pass. Ye Li stared blankly at the sky, a tear falling down. He was unwilling to accept the already doomed ending... "I want this god to be able to no longer cover my eyes, and I want all the angels to be buried with him in this land!" During the Second God War. Tang San looked at the multiple gods on Ye Li's body and finally panicked, "I'm just making a fool of myself, do you think the hanger is the real body?" The voice of the late Yu Xiaogang floated in the three realms, "This is not only a top-level martial spirit, even the divine king's martial spirit is not better than him..." The Shrek Seven Gods finally perished, and the major sects collapsed one by one. He created his own divine throne, and the God of Destruction offered it to him. The God of the Seven Elements was willing to surrender. All of this comes from the underestimated Star Douluo - Ye Li!

War, crisis, disaster - for many people living in this era, the period from 1914 to 1945 is like the second Thirty Years' War. It was the "German Chapter" of Western history and the most terrifying chapter in human history. In his work, Heinrich August Winkler for the first time took into account perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic, stood at the center of historical observation, and wrote the history of the West systematically and coherently.

The dinosaur Quintaglio created a civilized society. It was further discovered that the origin of dinosaur civilization was not the soon-to-be-destructed satellite they were on. Where is the source? How did they get here? Somehow, a great super life dominates all of this... At the same time, the internal contradictions of Quintaglio society remain unresolved: the dinosaurs retain their ancient instinct to fight for territory and must keep a distance from each other. For them, population control was crucial, and seven of the babies hatched from a clutch of eight dinosaur eggs had to be killed. Only the strongest and most aggressive survived, but all the royal children survived. This privilege aroused the people's resistance. As the king, Di-Dib was forced to undergo an adult selection with his seven brothers and sisters. Only one could survive...

Quintaglio's intelligent dinosaur's national escape plan has begun, and the final chapter of the "Dinosaur Civilization Trilogy" has also begun. Afsay, who has been blind for a long time, gradually uncovered the deepest pain hidden in his heart under the guidance of psychologist Meklebo; while exploring the alien spacecraft, Navato personally boarded the Tower of Babel that grew in the spacecraft; the Torreca fleet finally discovered the New World, but the instinct to fight for territory triggered a bloody conflict between the alien races... The fate of the Quintaglio dinosaurs is always closely related to the Afsay family, but no one knows that they can change the fate of the entire race.

This book is a collection of short stories, consisting of 27 short dialogues between mythological characters. It is a strange book with a special form and a representative work in the collection of Pavese's short stories. Through dialogues between characters from ancient Greek mythology, the writer talks about universal experiences of the world: childhood, family, sexuality, poetry, love, struggle, failure and resistance. The selected mythological characters are closely related to the author's personal troubles, interests, and concepts, and are his Jungian prototypes and poetic endorsements. One reference for this book is Leopardi's "Moral Pieces" (19th-century Italian poet and philosopher), but "Dialogues" focuses more on mythology than philosophy. In his interpretation and rewriting of traditional mythology, Pavese presents fundamental themes such as fate, tragedy, childhood, and failure. These mythological characters are closely related to the author's personal troubles, interests, and concepts, and are his Jungian prototypes and poetic endorsements.

This book is one of the masterpieces in the long series by the famous Canadian science fiction master Robert Sawyer. Sawyer constructed a unique science fiction world in the novel, which takes place on a planet ruled by intelligent dinosaurs. This setting is full of imagination, especially the use of dinosaurs as the protagonist, which breaks the anthropocentric perspective in traditional science fiction novels. Sawyer depicts the emotions and thoughts of these dinosaur characters with delicate brushwork, allowing readers to relate to them.

On a distant planet, dinosaurs evolved intelligence equivalent to humans and created a dinosaur society. These dinosaurs named "Quintaglio", like the Tyrannosaurus rex on the earth, have a strong sense of territory. Individuals must keep a certain distance from each other. Too close will cause fighting; and once the craze for slaughter spreads, the whole society will join in, and civilized cities will turn into slaughterhouses in the blink of an eye. The dinosaurs are usually polite and polite, making readers completely think that the characters in the book are exactly the same as humans. But suddenly, these characters reveal their nature as carnivorous hunters, tearing their companions apart. The novel takes Afse, an astronomy apprentice, as the protagonist. He is both a hunter who is proficient in fighting and an intelligent and keen wise man. Using his newly invented telescope, he discovered the truth about the dinosaur world: they lived on an ordinary satellite. What's even more frightening is that this satellite is on the verge of destruction!

This book is a collection of notes and manuscript fragments written by Burckhardt for his lectures at the University of Basel from 1865 to 1885. As an outstanding cultural and art historian in the 19th century, Burckhardt presented and described Western history from ancient times to the Revolutionary era in a highly personal style and aesthetic sense in the form of notes based on his own cultural vision and value standpoint. By deeply reflecting on and criticizing the axioms that pervaded the entire political field in the 19th century - egalitarian mass democracy, unfettered capitalism and its consumerism, materialism, and the welfare state - Burckhardt challenged and even subverted the linear view of historical progress dominated by Enlightenment and rationalism, advocating finding the spiritual strength to deal with the crisis of modern Western culture from the history of Greece, Rome, the Renaissance, and its humanist tradition.

This book is one of the representative works of Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize for Literature. The original work was published in 1980. In this work, the author confronts the narrow and peaceful civil society and life with pungent language. The background of the story is Vienna in the 1950s after the war. The protagonists in the book are all young people aged 17 or 18. They often get together to live ordinary lives, wandering the streets with nothing to do, and robbing pedestrians under the cover of darkness to vent their dissatisfaction with society and inner chaos. With the help of descriptions of their life experiences, the work reveals the social truth behind the peaceful facade in the early days of economic take-off.

This book is the representative work of Nobel Prize winner Jelinek. Since AIDS spread to the last Alpine valley, the factory director in the book can only enjoy the happiness of morality with his wife Gertie. Gertie wanted to escape her husband's compulsive demands. As a mother, she could not live her life normally; maternal love and sexual desire inhibited each other. During her depressed escape, she accidentally met Michael, a college student, and dedicated her sincere love to him. However, this youth idol in her heart was a liar, seducing and insulting her. The author has super powerful language power. She is good at connecting people with nature and mystifying current events. What is particularly unique is that the gender image she describes has the characteristic of relegating men to the realm of culture and women to the realm of nature. Through such stories, we can show, reveal, and explore the role of women in society.

In this elegant and highly readable book, renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores Shakespeare's tyrants and their tyranny from a unique perspective-their horrific and narcissistic folly, their usurpation, madness, and cruelty, their arrogance and lack of talent, their paranoia and evil, their hypocrisy, deception, and thirst for flattery. Never before have those bloody figures come to life as they do now.

Cold War, the most gripping nonfiction book of the year, gives us an unprecedented sense of what it was like to be in a world on the verge of destruction. Here's the truth behind all the spy novels you've read: why the United States and the Soviet Union were at a standoff; how close we came to nuclear catastrophe; what contemporary leaders, from Stalin to Mao, Reagan to Gorbachev, had in mind; how intelligence agents plotted, and how East German vacationers contributed to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This is a story about crisis talk, excuses, tyrants and power struggles, and ordinary people changing the course of history.

This is a youth mystery novel that tells a rather creative mystery story. The protagonist "I" in the novel accidentally saw the figure of a female classmate whom I had a crush on in high school while commuting. Surprisingly, she seemed to be the same as she was in high school and people around her seemed to have become accustomed to it. Even after discussing "I" with her classmates later, I learned that she seemed to be going to high school again and again at the same age. Driven by curiosity, "I" began to search for the truth hidden behind this. While "I" recalled the time when we went to school together, "I" visited classmates and teachers, which triggered a series of interesting stories.

The master of Nordic suspense novels, Yo Nesbo, has created a collection of short and medium-sized novels with the title "Jealousy", which has been shortlisted for the 2022 British Dagger Award. An Athenian police detective goes to a Greek island to investigate a disappearance. The suspects are the missing man's twin brothers, who came here from the United States to rock climb and fell in love with the same girl on the island. The night before the incident, the two brothers were seen having a heated argument in a bar. Is the disappearance an accident or man-made? The detective, also known as "The God of Jealousy," seemed to smell something familiar to him. In addition to "The Jealous Man", this book also includes six stories including "London".

Fourteen-year-old Richard is sent to live with his uncle and aunt in the remote, isolated town of Ballantyne after his parents die in a house fire. When a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new angry boy is responsible for Tom's disappearance. No one believed him except Karen when he said the phone booth at the edge of the woods sucked Tom into the receiver like a scene from a horror movie. She is a charming outsider who encourages Richard to pursue leads that the police refuse to investigate. Richard traces the number Tom dialed during his phone booth prank to an abandoned house in the Forest of Mirrors. There, Richard glimpsed a terrifying face in the window. Then voices start whispering in his ears... When another classmate goes missing, Richard must find a way to prove his innocence and stay sane while fighting the dark magic that controls Ballantyne and destroys him.

Kiyomizu Kiyoshi is an investigative journalist who reported on famous unjust cases such as the Okekawa Stalker Murder Case and the Ashikaga Girl Disappearance Case, which shook the Japanese judiciary and promoted legal innovation. He cannot stand any lies, dares to challenge the power agencies, and is a news hero in the eyes of the public. But behind the glorious reputation, there are countless days and nights accompanied by dangers and failures: running around at the hijacking scene, being fooled by genius liars, fighting with the "statutory statute of limitations" until the last moment... In this complex and ever-changing era, how can people distinguish the true from the false? Why should journalists report and for whom? In this semi-memoir work, Qing Shuijie reviews more than ten major cases he has experienced in his career of more than thirty years, truly reveals his original intention as an investigative reporter, and asks what the mission of news reporting is.