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One rainy night in 1866, Walter from England? After a long sea voyage, Moody arrived exhausted at the coastal town of Hokitika, New Zealand. Like all the people who dreamed of getting rich at that time and flocked here from all over the world, he was ready to gamble their lives in this gold rush. When Walt walked into the smoking room of the hotel to rest, he found 12 men crowded inside. Judging from their appearance and clothing, they were a mixture of different races and social classes. The scene was extremely unusual. When he first arrived, he accidentally broke into a secret party. These 12 local men gathered together solemnly in order to clarify the connection between three suspected criminal incidents in one day: the richest gold prospector in the town disappeared for no reason; a reclusive drunkard was murdered and a large amount of gold was found in his home; a prostitute was lying on the roadside after a suicide attempt and was about to be tried for murder. However, there is a huge gap between reality and appearance. As each man tells his own one-sided story, the truth and falsehood are gradually pieced together into a web of alliances and betrayals, secrets and lies, luck and misfortune. Some people teamed up to make prostitutes addicted to opium, some fell in love with prostitutes, and some were the brothers of the deceased. Moody was soon involved in this mystery, but he also carried his own secrets... And the scene Moody witnessed on the boat was cleverly connected with the above events. This intricate web of mystery has its own order like the starry sky, everything is interconnected, and everyone plays a role in it, but they are unaware of it...

In 1979, Billy Milligan was sentenced to be transferred to Lima Hospital, a "hell on earth" designed for mentally disordered criminals. There, doctors did not believe that he suffered from multiple schizophrenia and gave him electroshock therapy and forced him to take various sedatives, which hindered the integration of his personalities. How did Billy survive? When can a personality that has initially been successfully integrated regain its freedom? A nurse cried and begged him to eat... His stomach was swollen, his gums bled when touched, and his vision began to blur. When he moved his hand away from his face, all he saw was the traces of his fingers in the air... He dragged his body to the sink and saw that his face in the mirror was yellow and yellow, with two deep black circles around his sunken eyes. He felt weak and weak and knew he was dying. His eyes started to darken, and he forced himself to take a sip of water. He felt strange, as if something was missing. He listened, but there was silence... Billy now realized that no one could break himself if he didn't break in the most difficult of times.

In 1977, Billy Milligan, a serial rape suspect in Ohio, was arrested by the police, but he had no memory of the crimes he committed. In fact, there are a total of 24 personalities in his body. These personalities are not only different in personality, but also in terms of IQ, age, nationality, language, gender, etc. How did these incredible personalities come about? Is he a liar who deceives the public, or is he an unfortunate victim? His father committed suicide and his stepfather abused him in every possible way. This made Billy eager to escape from the world - committing suicide many times. On the other hand, his survival instinct came to comfort and protect him. These two forces came together and tore Billy into pieces... When Billy closed his eyes, the guardian Reagan would come out to repel the abuser. 8-Year-old bearer David cries, lesbian Adalana, gangster Philip, professional liar Kevin, clown Leigh, workaholic Mark... A personality to bear his pain, a personality to express his happiness, a personality to protect his body, a personality to enjoy the care of others, a personality to learn to escape...

The masterpiece of an author nominated for 15 Nobel Prizes! 61 Humorous stories! In these days of exhaustion, every dignity is earned by oneself. Read Kecai Tiao Wenku. Taxi drivers, waiters, cleaners, stuntmen, unemployed people... Some people play clowns in cheap restaurants after losing their jobs, some people are driven crazy by work and talk nonsense, some people have to abandon their babies on the street, and some people work as robbers under bridges... Through this collection of short stories, Moravia constantly changes the theme of poverty, crime, love loss, and unemployment, and writes about the struggles and helplessness of small people in big cities in the sinking era.

She has a truly free soul because she is true to her feelings! Somerset Maugham's own preface describes the original intention of creation, expert reading, and original picture and text interpretation. Reader's Three Circles Classic Library. After the famous writer Edward Driffield died, his second wife asked someone to write his biography. The narrator "I" of the novel, the young writer Ashenton, was invited by the biographer Roy to go to Driffield's country mansion to recall the story of his interaction with the writer. However, in the depths of my memory, what shines more dazzlingly than the writer is his ex-wife Rosie, a charming woman who was not bound by etiquette, was frank, passionate and innocent like a child. This story originates from real gossip in the British literary and art circles. A memory slowly reveals the anecdotes surrounding Rosie: she is charming, innocent and kind, and is willing to give up everything for her lover; she is fun-loving, frank and true, and is never shy to express her true feelings! Therefore, she became the only charming and perfect woman in Maugham's works.

"Geranium" is a collection of short stories. It is the first collection of short stories by Flannery O'Connor, winner of the National Book Award and a representative writer of American Southern literature. It collects eight of O'Connor's early works into one volume. "Geraniums", "Barber", "Wild Cat", "Crop" and "Turkey" all show his imaginative, amazing vitality and penetrating creative talent. "Train", "Peeler" and "Heart of the Park" outline the prototype of his full-length masterpiece "Wise Blood". Translator Chen Xiaoli, after translating "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" and "Image of the Golden Eye" by McCullers, a female writer of southern American literature, once again presents readers with an absolutely not-to-be-missed work of American southern literature.

The protagonist Lucien is the son of a banker, but he is not interested in inheriting his father's business. He joins the army and becomes a second lieutenant of the cavalry regiment. When driving into the city of Nancy, he accidentally falls off his horse and meets Madame Chastelet, a beautiful young woman who is watching the excitement. Madame Chastelet was young and widowed, and owned a million-dollar fortune. She was the target of many aristocratic young people in Nancy's upper class society. But Madame Chastelet was interested in Lucien, and the two began a sincere and passionate love. "The Red and the White" is one of Stendhal's most representative works. He described the emotional entanglement of the young man and woman against the background of the conflict and competition between various social forces in the French July Dynasty at that time, so he wrote it vividly and profoundly.

The novel mainly describes the love story of a pair of protagonists. Fabrice won the favor of his aunt when he was young. When he grew up, he became the focus of many women because of his handsome appearance. He experienced many romantic affairs, and after being imprisoned, he met the daughter of the fortress commander and completely changed into a different person. From then on, he began a tear-jerking love story with the heroine. "The Abbey of Parma" is one of Stendhal's most representative novels. It is set in Italy from the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth century and criticizes the dark rule of European feudal forces.

"The Red and the Black" is a monument of French and even European literature in the nineteenth century. The protagonist Julien is the son of a small business owner. With his intelligence, he hooked up with the mayor's wife when he was working as a tutor in the local mayor's house. After the affair was exposed, he fled the mayor's house and entered the seminary. Recommended by the dean of the seminary, he went to Paris to work as a personal secretary for the Marquis de Larmore, a backbone of the extreme royalist party. He was quickly appreciated and reused by the Marquis. At the same time, Julien had an affair with the Marquis' daughter. Finally, under the church's planning, the mayor's wife was forced to write an informant letter to expose him, ruining his career. In anger, he shot and wounded the mayor's wife and was sentenced to death and put on the guillotine. The confrontation between the individual and society is the central theme of The Red and the Black. The book challenges traditional customs and denounces the hypocrisy of social values.

"The Story of Chess" is a novel written only three days before the end of Austrian writer Zweig's life, and it is also his true masterpiece. Because he was deeply influenced by Freud, Zweig was very good at psychological description and was known as the "hunter of the human soul". The novel tells the story of an amateur chess player who defeats a talented player. This amateur chess player had almost never played real chess; he accidentally stole a chess book when he was under fascist supervision. Since then, this book has become his only spiritual sustenance. He studied chess books crazily and even split into two selves playing chess in his mind. In the endless time and extremely limited space, he could only use this method to relieve the huge pain in his soul. In this work, Zweig truly presents the psychological changes that occur after people are imprisoned physically and deprived of their spiritual life.

Nobel laureate Handke's creative new work is an epic journey into the interior of France and an image of French social reality. Written for young people who cannot gain a foothold in society: Go to the wilderness to find your true self. At the beginning of the novel, on a beautiful day in early August, an old man living in the suburbs of Paris left his peaceful suburban residence in Paris, an "uninhabited bay" surrounded by forests, and went to his country house in Picardy. As he walked, observing his surroundings, he occasionally mentioned a young woman he called "the fruit-stealing girl" who seemed to be on a similar journey to northern France. This "fruit-stealing girl" is 25 years old and has been "eager to escape" since adolescence. She just returned from Siberia and immediately went out to find her mother. In retracing her footsteps (whether real or imagined) through the interior of France, the narrator is writing about her in his own way, and thus the novel is born.

The original novel of the popular anime drama "I'm So Afraid of Pain, So I'm All About Defense" has 6 volumes, authentically imported. The cumulative views of the anime exceeded 400 million! The number of fans following the completion of the rating series is as high as 7.37 Million! A highly popular work that detonated the entire network. Maple, who is new to the game, allocates all attribute points to "defense power" at the beginning. But after going online, her movements were slow and she couldn't use magic. Even the little white rabbit could make her spin around. Where is the sassy shield girl we promised? The strange thing is that she didn't feel any pain at all when faced with the attack! "Mobile Bunker", "Defense"... And "Floating Fortress" unique skills have made a surprise appearance. The "angel costume" made its public debut to amaze everyone. Mysterious clues trigger adventures, and a powerful guild takes shape. The guild's "Big Maple Tree" made a high-profile appearance. Top-secret weapons explode onto the scene, and the powerful battle it out. The much-anticipated new section of "City of Eternal Night" is officially launched. The Night Demon Sword, the Flame Dragon, the Mysterious Tower Master... The "Evil Spirit Haunted" adventure adventure begins! The polarity of the new area is reversed, and the fantasy adventure begins. Why are there more and more strange titles and skills? Look at the cute and cute shield girl and play in the different world of the game.

I volunteer to be alone because I enjoy it! Lonely Kafka 100th anniversary set! Includes all the full-length works of "The Missing", "The Trial" and "The Castle". "The Missing" is the beginning of Kafka's novel. Karl desperately wanted to gain a foothold in a foreign country, but he repeatedly found himself in trouble... He wrote about the experience of people becoming lonely again and again in society. "The Trial" is a symbol of the formation of "Kafkaesque" novels. Until he was sentenced to death, Joseph K did not know what his crime was... This was a kind of loneliness in which he sought to understand but found no results. "The Castle" is the finale of Kafka's novel. For land surveyor K, the castle seems close at hand, but he can never enter it... It is autobiographical, showing the struggle of a lonely person in an indifferent world. Loneliness was an important source of inspiration for Kafka's life. After Kafka's death, his close friend Brod compiled and published the three unfinished posthumous works of "The Missing", "The Trial" and "The Castle", collectively known as the "Solitude Trilogy".

A middle-aged couple who cannot have children vs. A teenage mother who cannot afford to raise a child. Underneath the delicate emotional waves, what is surging are hoarse shouts: "What is blood relationship", "What is family", "What is mother"? The Kurihara couple were over 40 years old. After two attempts at in vitro fertilization ended in failure, they adopted a newborn baby boy through a private charity organization and named them "Chao Dou". The couple regarded Chao Dou as their own child and raised him carefully. Time flies, and in a blink of an eye Chao Dou is at the age of going to kindergarten. The family of three was enjoying family happiness, and thought that such a happy time would last forever. But suddenly one day, Mrs. Kurihara received a strange phone call, and a woman's voice came from the other end of the phone: "I hope you can return the child to me."... It is both a cruel youth story and a profound family ethics drama. It also reveals the difficult situation of single women in modern Japanese society. The famous Japanese female director Naomi Kawase adapted the novel into a film of the same name in 2020. It was nominated for various awards at the Cannes Film Festival, San Sebastian International Film Festival, and Japan Film Academy Awards that year.

2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning work. See the hidden woman, the genius girl behind the financial giants, who hides the real driving force behind the wealth? Rewriting the myth of American capital, Díaz deconstructs Fitzgerald's lavish life. Although there was a lot of noise in New York in the 1920s, the Lasker couple were still the most dazzling couple: Benjamin was the legendary Wall Street tycoon, and Helen was the extremely smart daughter of an eccentric aristocrat. Together they climbed to the heights of endless wealth just as the Great Depression hit. But what price did they pay to obtain huge wealth? This is the mystery in the 1937 novel "The Ties," yet there are other versions of this story of privilege and deception. Popular novels and tycoon autobiographies weave together conflicting narratives. The shadow writer behind the autobiography is the one who unravels the fiction from the facts across a century: it is she who finds the real voice of the hostess covered behind layers of curtains, which will reveal the secret of endless wealth. "Trust" is a kaleidoscope of capitalism out of control. It is about the search for the truth, the power of wealth to distort reality, and how power can manipulate facts. Adapted from the HBO limited series, starring Kate Winslet ("Titanic", "The Reader", "East Side").

"We Are Lucky" is a long historical novel written by American writer Georgia Hunter. It is based on the true experience of a Polish Jewish family with 12 members, three generations, and a total of 12 people, who miraculously survived the Second World War. In fact, in the city of Radom where the Kurtz family lived, less than 300 of the 30,000 Jews survived. During the Holocaust, some of the family members were trapped in ghettos and faced the constant danger of being purged; some were secretly sent to Siberian labor camps, without enough food and clothing to protect themselves from the cold, and were forced to work; some were disguised as non-Jews and lived in unfamiliar communities, where they could be reported at any time; some were living overseas, moving between France, Morocco, Portugal, and Brazil, with little hope of survival. Each of them has faced despair and life and death more than once, but relying on the unwavering love and longing among their families and their instinctive desire to survive from beginning to end, they choose, act, and survive. "We Are Lucky" has sold millions of copies in 16 languages, and a limited series adaptation of the same name is currently being filmed.

This book is a novel that the author spent fifteen years writing. It won the 2015 German Book Award. The novel describes the ignorant youth years experienced by a boy from the Federal Republic of Germany and his peers from the late 1960s to the 1970s. It reflects the author's profound analysis of the society of the post-war Federal Germany. It was a turbulent era. Young people in European and American societies sharply criticized the various shortcomings of Western society. Young people in the Federal Republic of Germany vowed to investigate the culpability of their parents in the Second World War. Popular culture such as rock music represented by the Beatles in the 1960s and 1970s also had a huge impact on the young generation.

"I have no childhood memories. Another history, that big history, holding its huge axe, has already answered this question for me: war, concentration camps." Childhood is a blank. The war carved a gap in Perec's life that could not be ignored. But in this book, he pieced together the fragments of a life snatched from the void, trying to salvage memories of his parents. W is a fictional island. In W, ruled by the Olympic ideal, whether you can eat, what name you will have, whether you will be beaten to death - all basic life depends on the results of competition. The fate of the residents is completely random, and the referee can change the rules at will. Here, being alive is a gift rather than a right. One is a story about childhood, and the other is a story about childhood creation. The two texts overlap and overlap. In the gaps, breaks, and breaks between them, there hangs a cruel history that belongs to both individuals and collectives...

This book tells the story of three low-level workers. After graduation, Lingmei entered the travel company she had always dreamed of. She was determined to work hard to get into a department she liked more. However, because of a trivial matter, she was targeted by her team leader Kishimoto. She started getting off work later and later, and often had to spend the night at the company... Mariko, an informal worker at the magazine who might become a regular employee if she persisted for another year, was faced with a delicate situation. Although she worked hard to achieve results, she was rejected by her director. Suzuki was targeted, and not only was he often treated unfairly, but his personality was even denied... Souma, who was transferred to a branch of a food company because of his pregnancy, soon found himself in a fringe department where abandoned people gathered. Even if he worked diligently, his parasitic boss Sato, who oversaw the entire department, would not make it easy for everyone... Ah, the weather is really nice today. It's like the whole world is rooting for me. It was almost time... I grabbed the bat and walked out the door.

Taking advantage of being a reader, I became the team representative and came to the fourth main mission. In order to compete for the "Absolute Throne", the final reward of this mission, I circled among the "Seven Kings of Seoul" and met Liu Zhonghe in battle again. But the moment I became the owner of the throne, I made the "worst" choice... As five "disasters" came to Seoul, the task of stopping and hunting the "disasters" began. Facing the determined outcome, I In the fifth main task, I was still trying to influence the direction of the story and change the fate of "Flood Disaster" Shen Liucheng. When I found that everything was in vain, I decided to plan a perfect performance to deceive the constellations and the system. As a reader, I could not change anything in the past, but it is precisely because I am a reader that I can make changes at this moment.

[Original novel of the popular drama "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses"! ]Maple, who stole the show on the fifth floor, encounters a new "crisis"! Evil spirits appear on the sixth floor, and her partner Sally retreats, forcing Maple to embark on a journey of exploration alone. Transform into a black hole in the game and force slimes to join the team... Shouldn't you explore alone? Why is the strength getting stronger and stronger! With the screams of the game operation team, Maple's new adventure officially begins!

After the storm, a young man with a big bear tattoo on his arm and a young woman with guitar and shotgun tattoos will return to their long-lost hometown of Bear Town to attend the funeral of a winner. The man's name is Benji. He is the hero of this small town and the traitor who is called a sissy by all the fans. He looks like a teenager who has climbed to the tallest tree and carries the biggest secret on his shoulders. He is the most dangerous man on the ice and the loneliest man on the face of the earth. The tone in which people spoke about coming out seemed to imply that it only had to be done once, but Benji knew that with someone there, it would never be over. You just have to keep coming out and coming out again until you're knocked down. The woman's name is Maya, and it has been two and a half years since she was raped by Kevin, the star of hope in the town. That event started everything, and her story changed two hockey clubs, impacted politics, and shook an entire town and half a forest to its foundations. The rape lasted only a few minutes for Kevin, but it was endless for her. Most people can never pinpoint the exact moment when they stopped being a child, but Maya could. All the hidden and ignored stories will be rediscovered; traps, problems, and malicious jokes will reappear; the standards of justice, the price of friendship, and the choices of life will all come to the fore, and violence, blood, and love will appear one after another, a pistol, a storm, a person rushing to the fire, a game that can never be started; a first love, a second chance, and a last farewell. In a dark forest, young men wearing different colored clothes will engage in a life-or-death fight. The people we love deeply will eventually die.

This is Bear Town, where storms, bitter cold, ice, and endless forests are all waiting for an opportunity to kill people. Do you want to understand the people here? Really want to understand? Then you have to know the best of all that we can do - our dreams, our courage, a few little girls who make us proud, a few little boys who make us great. Do you want to get to know the people who live in a small town? Really want to know? Then you have to understand all the worst things we are capable of doing. Fear can make some people heroes, but in the shadow of fear, most of us only bring out our ugliest sides, and good people will do terrible things because they believe they are just trying to protect the people they love. How should we live? How to love? How to win? How to protect those precious things? How to choose and be a better person? Society is the sum of our own choices, and everything that unites us will eventually become our history.

The young Siddhartha was tired of the Brahmin life and chose to leave his hometown to find his true self. He once stepped into the world, enjoyed the worldly life, and indulged in the abyss of desire until he got tired of it. He leaves the world behind and resolves to end his life. By the river, in a moment of despair, he heard the sound of the river and had an epiphany by the river.

That sense of powerlessness that no matter how I live makes me want to live a more vigorous life. Joyce's work of genius! 20Th century short story template! Reading guide by Nankai famous teachers, original and exquisite illustrations. The heavy snow is approaching, and a sense of powerlessness that no matter how you live has long shrouded the city of Dublin. Almost everyone, men, women, and children will be spared. "Araby": The fragile and blind love when you were young, you only dare to secretly hide your love for someone in your heart. "Just the Same": When a person reaches middle age, he has lost almost everything and is tired of the ordinary life. Tragedy is like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger. "The Dead": The wife's first love comes with her memory on a snowy Christmas night, but as a husband, she has always been insignificant. ... Snowflakes fall leisurely between heaven and earth, like a mirror, reflecting and inspiring every one of us who feels powerless and struggling in the quagmire of growth, work, and marriage, to release our own vitality!

"There are only two types of people in the English-speaking world, one is those who have read "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", and the other are those who are ready to read them." The foundation work of Western fantasy literature, the original novel of the "Lord of the Rings" series of Hollywood epic productions and Oscar-winning movies, has been best-selling around the world for seventy years, with a total sales volume of more than 150 million copies. The famous fantasy literature writer and translator Zhu Xueheng has translated the classic and lovingly wrote the introduction to the new edition. For the first time, it includes more than 30 precious illustrations drawn by the author Tolkien. The "Lord of the Rings" trilogy is a fantasy epic masterpiece by the great British writer J. R. R. Tolkien, including "The Lord of the Rings", "The Two Cities" and "The Return of the King". The story tells the story of Frodo, a carefree hobbit boy who inherits a ring, only to discover that it is the One Ring forged by the Dark Lord Sauron, which has the power to enslave the whole world. Under the guidance of Gandalf, Frodo and elves, dwarves, hobbits, rangers, and humans formed an expedition to throw the Lord of the Rings into the Crater of Doom and destroy it. Sauron has sent black knights to search for the ring, and the Ring has strong corrosive power that will distort the wearer's mind. Can the power of good defeat the temptation of evil? This is a touching story about survival and courage, about fighting against darkness to the death for a bright future for mankind.

One of the most interesting and delicate novels in the history of Latin American literature, it depicts the upper class society of Lima, the capital of Peru, through the eyes of a child, recalling the past with its delicate brushstrokes. The novel "The World of Julius" is a famous work by Bliss Echenik. This autobiographical work, by describing the life experience of the young protagonist Julius in his family and lower society, shows how the childlike innocence with all kinds of beautiful ideas about the adult world is gradually distorted and falls into the hollow of despair and loneliness. Julius was born into a well-off family and grew up under the love of his family. This experience also made him gradually marginalized in the upper class society to which he belonged. He emotionally identifies with the people at the bottom and is more willing to accept their values, but sadly, he is also a marginal figure in this world. The adult world has implanted countless contradictions in Julius's heart. In the confusing reality, his childlike innocence has gone from confusion to loss; in the face of the strong contrast between ideal and reality, the childhood Eden is vulnerable.

Colm Tóibín, the author of "The Master" and "Brooklyn", is an early representative work and a shortlisted work for the Booker Prize. In Ireland in the early 1990s, due to the terminal illness of her gay brother Declan, Helen had to reunite with her long-estranged mother Lily at her grandmother Dora's old house by the sea to take care of the terminally ill Declan. Also living with them are Declan's friends Paul and Larry. Helen and Lily have been estranged for a long time, and Lily also has many conflicts with Dora. In the process of facing Declan's illness, three generations with different beliefs and feelings were forced to examine their own past in the shallows of history, listen to each other's hearts amidst collisions and conflicts, and gradually reach an understanding through looking back on the past. Tobin uses soothing and beautiful words to explore the nature of love and the complex emotions within a conflicted family, which resonates deeply: How do you face your family and heal the deep wounds in your heart?

Six food-related short stories present six kinds of joys and sorrows of life. When you are happy, celebrate with food; when you are sad, talk to food; when you are lonely, be with food. Cry as much as you want, live hard, no matter what, eat first. The new generation of Japanese writer Madoka Ayase brings this year's touching "Food Therapy Story", which was selected as a "platinum book that must not be missed" by Japan's "Da Vinci" magazine.

This time Haruki Murakami turned his attention to writing fairy tale novels. "The Sheep Man's Christmas" is a simple story, yet humorous and charming. The main characters include the "sheep-shaped characters" Sheep Man and Dr. Sheep from "The Adventures of Sheep" that "Murakami fans" are familiar with. They will take you to an unknown world and embark on a magical, funny and twists and turns Christmas Eve adventure. We can't help but be impressed by the magic of Haruki Murakami, who always has the ability to use his words to take you to heaven and earth. The 26 admirable and exquisite illustrations are from the famous Japanese comics and illustrator Maki Sasaki. His posters were also one of Haruki Murakami's collections. Therefore, Murakami specially asked him to draw the "Sheep Man's World" in his mind, making the story more vivid and interesting, allowing you to relive the dream of fairy tales when you have long since left childhood, and giving you a relaxed and happy mood.

"Hand over each other's darkest secrets so that we can never be separated." The final chapter of the family trilogy of Italian national writer Domenico Starnone. Pietro and Teresa's love life was full of swords and swords. After another argument, she had an idea: Tell me your darkest secrets and I'll do the same. Then we will be together forever. Of course, they broke up soon after. But the end of one relationship is often the beginning of the next, and when Pietro met Nadia, he immediately fell in love with her passivity and softness. However, a few days before the wedding, Teresa magically reappears. Along with her came the shadow of their mutual confession, which was almost a warning. From that moment on, the "confession" they exchanged will always be a threat: all good deeds in Pietro's life will be based on this dark secret. More importantly, Teresa always appeared on time at every crossroads in his life. Or was he always looking for her? With a gaze that is both complicit and distant, and with the aching lightness that only great narratives possess, "Confessions" depicts a man torn between himself and his ambitions. But it's really about each of us: how dangerous the foundations on which we build our identities are.

The most influential fantasy and horror novel system in the 20th century! The "Cthulhu Mythos" was created by the American writer Lovecraft. He built an extremely grand world, filled with creations and existences that transcend human cognitive dimensions and are extremely distant in time and space. George Martin, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, the author of "American Gods", and the famous Japanese cartoonist Junji Ito are all loyal fans. The games "World of Warcraft", "StarCraft", "Hearthstone", science fiction masterpieces "Ultraman", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Alien" and "Batman" are all deeply influenced by it. This series is compiled by the well-known translator Qu Changxuan. The second volume is an eclectic collection of 12 classic short and medium-sized novels, including "Mountains of Madness", "The Beast in the Cave", "The Deserted House", "Occurrences from Another World", "Climbing the Wall of Sleep", "The Shadow Beyond Time" and "The Challenge of the Other Side". This book unlocks immersive reading and takes you into the world of horror! "We will transcend time, space, and dimensions, effortlessly gazing into the source of creation."

The author who never fails - three novels by Emer Towers. "The Rule of the Top": In the expectation of hopeless love, she finally understood that the "right" choice often involves the pain of loss. "Moscow Gentlemen": Living in the attic of a five-star hotel, you can watch the great changes unfolding in Russia under the wheel of history from a unique perspective. "Lincoln Highway": four teenagers drifting on the road, four destinies unfolding in ten days! Some people have a new beginning, while others fall into a bitter fate.

In June 1954, 18-year-old Emmett was driven home to Nebraska by the warden after serving 15 months in a juvenile correctional farm. His father had just passed away, and the family farm and residence had been confiscated by the bank due to debts. Emmett and his brother Billy decided to leave their hometown and go to California to find their mother who ran away from home many years ago and start a new life. But the unexpected arrival of two friends, Dutchess and Woolley, disrupted the brothers' plans and led them to the completely opposite destination - New York. Ten days later, the story came to an end: some people had a new beginning and became more determined; others fell into the bitter fate and their own shortcomings.

"I am a Cat (Illustrated Collector's Edition)" is the masterpiece of writer Natsume Soseki. The story observes humans from the perspective of a cat and shows the various aspects of the world in Japan after the Meiji Restoration. This cat looked down at the Japanese society at that time and watched the general trend of modern civilization in the 20th century, making all kinds of hilarious satires. Natsume Soseki depicts a group of literati and snobs who love to chat and claim to be aloof. He analyzes the mentality of intellectuals in witty and humorous language, and vividly criticizes the money-oriented society and the lifestyle habits of blind worship of the West. He uses a parody technique to weave a broad vision of humankind.

[Original novel of the popular drama "Because I'm Too Afraid of Pain, I Use All My Defenses"! The guild competition has come to an end, and "Big Maple Tree" has become a blockbuster, ranking among the top three! The much-anticipated new section of "City of Eternal Night" is officially launched. This time, the members of Big Maple Tree fought independently and started a fantasy adventure with new comrades. The Night Demon Sword, the Flame Dragon, the Mysterious Tower Master... Faced with many levels, let's see how Maple and her friends successfully pass them!

Maastal is a seaport town in southern Denmark, where people have made a living by the sea for generations. This king-like sea is the background of their lives and the place of their destiny. After men become sailors, they go to many ports in the world. Many of them narrowly escape death and end up buried under the sea. Women will stay on land and live in fear day and night, waiting for their lovers to return. Generations of young souls were drawn to the songs of the sirens, grew up in the absence of their fathers, and then became sailors. In 1848, the town was involved in the First War of Dande, and not everyone who fought for glory survived. Lauris Madsen survived thanks to a pair of mysterious boots, but soon escaped back to sea and disappeared from sight. After his son Albert inevitably became a sailor, he embarked on a long journey alone to find his father. Many years later, he took a head and returned to the town where women increasingly maintained daily life, until he met a boy and a widow. And this woman has made up her mind to end it all and rescue everyone from the unruly ocean... There are ordinary lives in small towns and children's farces, as well as adventures at sea and wars that destroy the human soul. The novel takes readers to witness the lives of three generations, two world wars, and one hundred years; it also sails through a vast world: from the barren rocks of Newfoundland to the lush plantations of Samoa, from the lamest pub in Tasmania to the frozen coast of northern Russia. This is a coming-of-age story, a family legend, and an elegy dedicated to a bygone era. It outlines for us an eternal picture of the absurdity and cruelty of fate, human violence and love, passion and fragility.

This book is a complete record of the operation of the modern publishing industry in the United States and a practical guide to best-selling books in Europe and the United States. The publishing industry is a fighting industry that creates fame, fashion, and wealth. This book is an inside story of manipulation, fighting, and passionate competition in the industry. Publishers, writers, editors, book agents, marketers, bookstore owners, all kinds of people in the circle are competing in New York, a city where desires and dreams are flowing. In this industry, the core and unspoken rule of the game is whether it is "saleable" or not. Under this rule, everyone's behavior is regulated and divided into detailed links and processes. The planning and acquisition of book manuscripts, the packaging and promotion of advertisements, and the operation and techniques of marketing, the publishing industry is like a precision-operated machine, and works with millions of copies are operated and produced one after another. The author's success lies in being deeply involved in it and writing the true inside story of the American publishing industry.

Moore Flanders was a beautiful woman who was born in Newgate Prison. Before she was born, her mother used her to escape hanging. She gradually grew up with the help of a wealthy family, but was deceived and defiled by the young master of the family. Later, she married the second young master of the family and used her beauty to gain opportunities for survival; when her youth passed away, she became a thief. When she was arrested and returned to the place of her birth, Newgate Prison, her life also formed a cycle full of irony.

A surreal understanding of the Holocaust, Reverse Narrative offers an ambitious and playful way to think about Nazi atrocities. The novel uses a "time inversion" technique to tell the life of Nazi war criminal Todd Friendly. He begins his life like a "video rewind" from the moment he is about to die, to his seemingly decent life as a doctor in his later years, to the heinous crimes he committed in Auschwitz in his youth, to his childbirth, marriage, adolescence, and finally his return to his mother's womb... In a seemingly humorous way, he reveals to us that extremely cruel and shocking dark history, completely subverting the reader's reading experience.

This is a collection of classic short stories by the master of contemporary Irish short stories, describing the web of fate and desire, recreating the uncanny workmanship of "Irish Chekhov". This book collects 12 short stories by William Trevor, which explores the emotional limits of ordinary people in Irish cities and countryside who are concealed in controlled daily life. It is shown in the fact that everyone is voluntarily or unconsciously trapped in the web of fate and desire. Taking a step back means loss, and taking a step further comes with a price. Therefore, these 12 stories seem to have a continuing theme throughout - everyone is a prisoner of life. Whether it is an ill-fated couple who is greedy for inheritance and is fooled by the donor, but is grateful for the shackles, or an uninhibited prodigal who is burdened with the past of a lifetime and refuses to be influenced by money; whether it is a female painter who has been imprisoned by illusions all her life and quietly buried her first love in ignorance, or a white man who The parasitic father who is a prostitute but thinks of himself as his benefactor. As the author traces the source of every pain of the characters in the book, readers will find that there is a flame under every iceberg in the world, and a bullet can be fired from every gentle look. The collected article "The Mystery of Deli Mahren" has been adapted into a TV series by the BBC, which reproduces how people approach and avoid the truth, bury and create the truth of the murderous Rashomon case.

"The Rachel Papers" is Amis's famous work. After the novel was published, it won the Maugham Literary Award in one fell swoop, making the novelist who was only 24 years old a blockbuster. In this novel, the protagonist Charles Heway, like young Amis, is a smart and sensitive literary youth. He is full of great literary ambitions and tries to record the "bad" years that have just passed away - his seduction of the girl Rachel - through memories and imagination. This literary youth image is not only the predecessor of many "bad boy" images in Amis's works, but also a seminal figure in the history of British literature. "The Rachel Files" is a youthful rhapsody full of humor and banter, and it is also a gloomy and surly youth "sacrifice song". Once published, it caused great concern and sensation.

I can't decide my birth, but I can decide whether to become a mother. A women's novel that sincerely explores the meaning of "life" and is full of thoughts. Published and distributed in more than 40 countries, Mieiko Kawakami's new masterpiece confronts various difficulties in life and explores female body autonomy. "The Story of Summer" is the sequel to the Akutagawa Prize-winning novel "Breasts and Eggs" by Mieiko Kawakami, and is divided into two parts. The first half rewrites "Breasts and Eggs", adding new plots and dividing chapters based on the original. The second half tells that eight years later, Natsuko, who aspired to become a writer, finally published a collection of short stories and began to make a living through writing. However, the 38-year-old Natsuko, who had no partner, suddenly "wanted to see her own child" strongly, and she began to look for ways to have a child out of wedlock. Along the way, she met a variety of people, from single mothers to people born through artificial insemination. These people shook Xia Zi's hope and prompted her to have new thinking about fertility and the meaning of life. As a sequel to "Breasts and Eggs", this book inherits the unique literary expression and ideological connotation of the previous work, and provides a more in-depth description of the living conditions of women, especially young women, their emotional world, and the issues they care about, and provides guidance for their careers, families, and futures.

More than 900 annotations and an index of word games place "Lolita" in a broader context. Annotated edition of the first modern novel published during the author's lifetime. "Lolita" is the most allusive and word-playing novel since "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake." The reader must grasp the outline of the story while grappling with the difficult issues posed by the profound material and the richly crafted prose. As a student of Nabokov and an expert on Nabokov's works, Alfred Appel Jr. Wrote and annotated the preface to "Lolita". He also visited the teacher many times with more than 900 interpretation annotations of his own to verify whether it was true. Not only did he not delete the annotation Nabokov denied, he also wrote the process of the discussion between the two, and attached Nabokov's original rebuttal. The notes cover almost every aspect of the novel: translations of French words, dismantling of made-up words, comic etymology, American pop culture, puns, alliteration, symbolism, metaphor, jokes, parody, wordplay, literary allusions, cross-references... Using Nabokov's own In other words: "These are the nerves of the novel, the secret threads, the coordinates that are not easy to detect. This book is developed with the help of this method." This annotated edition not only solves local problems at the level of details, but also shows how these problems constitute the overall design of the novel.

Akutagawa Award-winning writer Nanae Aoyama's collection of short stories about introverts, six short stories, six women, and six atypical life fragments, written for all people who don't need to shine and just want to live in their own little world. Our individuality is reflected in the way we distance ourselves from others and form relationships with them. Yuko is very frustrated when she returns to her hometown town from a big city. She used to be a teacher and is currently working odd jobs in a local doll production company, and her life is dull and dull. By chance, Yuko won the grand prize for a trip to Hawaii, which gave her renewed hope in life. However, the nosy ladies in the company mistakenly thought that Yuko would travel with a male colleague in the company. This atmosphere is like a quagmire trapping Yuko, who is not good at words. What makes Yuko even more overwhelmed is that a student he once taught appeared in front of him...

The twisted and intertwined tragedy of exclusivity and betrayal, the whirlpool of beauty and sin that grow together, is the controversial "private novel" of the master of "demonism" Junichiro Tanizaki. Passion and immorality are entangled to the point of destruction. The twisted love hell described by Junichiro Tanizaki. The story takes place in the third year of the Showa era. Sonoko, the daughter of a wealthy family, obeyed her parents' orders and married her husband Kotaro, who was from a poor family but worked hard. After supporting her husband to complete his studies, she became a lawyer's wife with no worries about food and clothing. After getting married, Sonoko had no common language with her husband. In order to kill the extra time, she attended a private school that cultivated women's skills, and thus got acquainted with the lady Tokumitsu Mitsuko. Sonoko called Mitsuko a "goddess like Guanyin". When she first saw Mitsuko, she was deeply attracted to her, and the two became sisters. Mitsuko's boyfriend Watanuki is a sinister person and is not willing to let Mitsuko marry another person. He devises a series of conspiracies to destroy Mitsuko and the garden that he has become friends with. In order to save Sonoko, Kotaro was also forced to participate. As the situation changed, the four people began to be jealous and suspicious of each other, and were tied into a knot like the character "Swastika"... In the process of entangled with the devil's beauty, Junichiro Tanizaki portrayed the various psychological states and behaviors surrounding jealousy, such as possessiveness, suspicion, dependence, etc., In a real and delicate manner. Whether it is Sonoko, Mitsuko, or Kotaro, they are all born with a lack of love. On the way to the world without jealousy, all love eventually entered the tomb together.

"The sun always has a way of shining on us, no matter where we are." Clara is a solar-powered artificial intelligence robot (AF) specially designed to accompany children. It has extremely high abilities of observation, reasoning and empathy. She sat in the store display window, watching the passers-by on the street and the children who came to browse the windows. She always expects that someone will soon choose her, but when the possibility of permanently changing her situation arises, Clara is reminded not to put too much faith in human promises. In Clara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro observes the ever-changing modern society through the perspective of an unforgettable narrator and explores a fundamental question: What exactly is love? This is the first work published by the British-Japanese writer Kazuo Ishiguro since he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. It is also the first novel he published five years ago. The story takes place in a future where science and technology are highly developed, and the subject matter involves one of the hottest social topics at the moment: the development and ethics of artificial intelligence technology. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro's masterpiece and collection of classic short stories incorporate his own musical life into the Ukiyo-e, and explore how people who start with talent but are trapped by fate can save themselves. Timeless old songs, depressed musicians, singers who have lost their glory, solitary piano music... Kazuo Ishiguro, who determined to be a rock singer at the age of 20, in this collection of classic short stories, created a set of ukiyo-e of musical life through clever copying of reality and self-integration. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

An elegy for the decline of an empire, a passing love; is it worth dedicating one's life to achieving a career, and achieving nothingness? "The End of the Day" is a work by Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro that won the Booker Prize in 1989. It is also Ishiguro's most important masterpiece. The novel unfolds with the memories of butler Stevens, telling the various experiences he had during his more than thirty years of service to Lord Darlington. Although he reached the peak of his career, Stevens suppressed his emotions too coldly and pursued perfection in performing his duties. He missed the last time his father was on his deathbed, and then missed love. Through the protagonist's memories, the novel unravels a person's life journey in front of the readers' eyes. It also reflects the international political landscape during the extraordinary period between World War I and World War II. The 1993 film of the same name (also known as "Goodbye"), a remake of the novel, starred the famous British actors Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and six British Academy Film Awards, and became a classic in film history. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.

Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro's debut novel that shocked the literary world, using sentimentality and irony to depict the trauma of war and inner demons and lies. This is a memory full of mist, both real and illusory. After the war, a suffering mother and daughter in Nagasaki longed for stability and rebirth, but they could never escape the shadows and inner demons brought about by the war. In the end, the mother and daughter successfully immigrated, while the daughter committed suicide. At the end of the play, the remembrancer peels off his disguise, and the story is full of tragedy. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.