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The world is in chaos. If it has been divided for a long time, it must be united. If it has been united for a long time, it must be divided. The Dahui Dynasty, which lasted for more than 400 years, gradually declined under the guidance of unfavorable factors such as the succession of foreign relatives and eunuchs, peasant uprisings, and warlord fighting. Feng Cheng, the great eunuch during Emperor Huiqin's period, burned down the entire Guang'an. The Gongjia Period began, and Fenggong in the northern part of the Central Plains took the opportunity to raise troops. It was found that Fenggong accounted for eight of the nine states in the Central Plains and had become quite wealthy. However, Nantaihang, located outside the Central Plains, was still fighting... Next, let us unfold a legendary story from the perspective of Runjia. (The whole story is in another world that is completely independent of history. If converted, it should be the Sui and Tang Dynasties.) (Also, I am a writing novice. This is my first novel. As for why I want to write it, I have to go back five years ago. One night five years ago, I dreamed about the story of "Runjia". I didn't pay attention to it at first, but then I dreamed about it from time to time. I thought it was quite interesting, so I planned to write it down to share with you. If there is something wrong, please comment.)

Junichiro Tanizaki is a famous modern Japanese writer. He entered the Taisho literary world as an aesthetic writer. He has been active in the Taisho and Showa eras and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature many times. He has written numerous works with rich themes and far-reaching influence. He is honored as "Literary Master" and "Otani Saki" in Japan. His famous works such as "Fine Snow", "Chun Qin Chao" and "Idiot's Love" are also familiar to Chinese readers. Mr. Tanizaki is not only a master of novels, but also a master of essays. "In Praise of Shadows" is his most famous essay collection. This collection of essays was published by Chuo Koron Publishing House in 1975 and includes six essays published by Mr. Tanizaki from 1930 to 1948.

"I am willing to put down everything and reincarnate with you, as long as you are willing to marry me." - Prince Linyuan

Three months ago, the great elder of the Shura Sect launched a rebellion and used conspiracies and tricks to murder the sect master. As the sect master's only direct disciple, Shen Yan immediately took away the sacred artifact, the Shura Ruler, and fled the sect, with blood and tears in her heart in order to seek revenge. As a result... Still can't escape the fate of death...

Yukio Mishima's drama masterpiece, published in Chinese for the first time, is a dramatic demonstration of the mysterious madness of "normal" men and women. The more despicable, cruel, immoral, and filthy human affairs are, the more they need to be described in elegant language. After Sade was imprisoned, the Marquise de Sade remained chaste throughout her life and ran to rescue her husband from prison. In old age, when Sade was free, she suddenly broke up with him. Hidden within this mystery is something real and incomprehensible about human nature. With Madame de Sade as the center, the six female characters in the play respectively represent chastity, morality, God, sensuality, innocence, and the people. They move intertwinedly like planets, and the conflict of ideas forms the climax of the drama.

Mishima Yukio's third collection of self-selected short stories before his suicide was published for the first time in China. It is a confession of an anti-era alien isolated in the modern jungle world. "Martyrdom" is Mishima Yukio's third self-selected short story collection before his suicide. The short works included in the collection symbolically depict the central theme of Mishima's literature - the relationship between the yearning for the Roman ideal world and the everyday world - through anti-era protagonists, and seek the meaning of modern "noble race exile" (people with noble blood are teased by fate and exiled) and alien isolation.

"Alchemist" Mishima Yukio's experimental love work, recasting artificial love on the ruins of the spirit. "The Submerged Waterfall" is a novel written by Yukio Mishima in 1955. The protagonist of the novel, Shiro Noboru, is a reservoir designer. He is young, handsome and successful in his career, but he is an emotionless person. One day I met Xianzi, a married woman. She had never been passionate about men. Sheng was excited to discover that this was a woman just like him, and he tried to build an "artificial love" with Xianzi that was completely divorced from emotion. But Xianzi was really in love with Sheng. Chengsuosheng was greatly disappointed when he found out. After understanding the situation, Xianzi was completely desperate and committed suicide by throwing himself into the waterfall.

Mishima Yukio's self-explanation of his literary career, the essence of Mishima's mysticism in his confrontation with death. Mishima Yukio's masterpiece of prose. Including "The Sun and Iron" and "The Era I Experienced", the author summarizes and reviews his writing career, and creates a prose world that is compatible with emotion and reason based on the literary mechanism of lyric prose.

Yukio Mishima's most popular novel, which redefines unethical love with classical and elegant writing; his urban romance novel, which was influenced by French psychological novels, sold 300,000 copies in the year of its publication and was evaluated as a "luxury novel with an elegant soul." The novel was adapted into a movie of the same name. "The Wavering of Virtue" is one of Yukio Mishima's middle and late novels. It was completed in 1957 and published by Kodansha in the same year. The protagonist Setsuko Kurakoshi was born into a family with strict discipline and noble family status, but she is filled with sensual talents. Setsuko Kurakoshi was unwilling to be lonely, tolerated fantasy, and took the initiative to become the mistress of Tsuchiya, a young man with a handsome face and a strong body. In the end, the relationship ended after the passion disappeared. The novel pays homage to French psychological novels and was very popular after its publication. It sold 300,000 copies that year. "The wavering of virtue" has since become synonymous with "unethical love".

Buck is a pet dog of Judge Miller's family. He was trafficked to the cold, remote and gold-rich Alaska in the northern United States and became a sled dog. In order to survive, Buck gradually adapted to the harsh natural environment and various greedy owners. After experiencing a series of life-and-death fights, the murder of his benefactor, and other events, Buck finally responded to his inner call, walked into the wilderness, returned to nature, and became the king of wolves. The American novelist Jack London shows us a vast wild world. While revealing the power of wildness and the courage to survive, he also expresses his disappointment in civilization and his thoughts on human nature.

Thirty thousand years ago, the earth had a cold climate and food shortage. The northern hemisphere was covered by large glaciers. Human beings formed tribes and struggled to survive in the harsh environment. There is a psychic in each tribe, who is the representative of the tribe's spirit and wisdom and inherits the tribe's history and civilization through poetry and painting. Long, who never wanted to be a psychic, was obsessed with painting, and painting and its techniques were unique only to psychics. Long, who resisted becoming a psychic, eventually became a new generation of psychic. The young people represented by Long have their own ideas about the management and development of the tribe. As the conflict between old and new ideas becomes more and more obvious, the conflicts between tribes become more and more intensified, and survival problems such as food shortages become more and more serious, the problem of tribal differentiation finally breaks out!

Yukio Mishima's collection of self-selected short stories is a masterpiece that uses all techniques to depict the real themes of life; the gorgeous writing that despises daily life, the sound and realistic presentation of the decadent taste of literature, and the extreme depiction of the forgetfulness of fate and hunger. When a loved one dies, can those left behind be saved? "Death in Midsummer" is a collection of short stories written by the author in the 1940s and 1950s. It contains 11 short stories in total. "Death in Midsummer" was created in 1952. It was conceived by the author based on a true story he heard in Kanaihama, Izu. It depicts the joys and sorrows of lovers, life and death, and is a tear-jerking novel. "Tobacco" is his famous masterpiece and was recommended by Kawabata Yasunari. The work depicts the social, political, cultural and other realities of Japan after the end of World War II, as well as the Japanese people's mentality of emerging from the shadow of the war.

"Let me live like a rocket taking off, let myself burn up, and let the night sky gain instant light." Mishima Yukio's thirteen short stories between the ages of seventeen and thirty-one are the masterpieces of Mishima's creative career. The elegance and passion behind his violent death. This book collects thirteen short stories written by Mishima Yukio between the ages of seventeen and thirty-one. When the opening chapter "Moon in the Water" was completed, Mishima was only seventeen years old. The full text consists of seven letters. The unfolding first-person narrative style makes the dialogue between the two parties closely connected and inseparable. The delicate and full psychological monologue is gripping. "Goat Head" reflects the subtle and dramatic changes in the protagonist's heart by describing whether a man can see the transformation of a goat's head when he interacts with different women before and after the war. The combination of realistic scenes and allegorical images brings the story to an abrupt end when it takes a major turn. Mishima's surprising expressiveness and distinct control of rhythm are impressive. In the title work "The Death of Radiguet", Radiguet, a talented writer whom Mishima had admired since his boyhood, passed away under the protection of Cocteau, ending his life at the age of twenty, as predicted: "Within three days, I will be shot by a magic weapon."

"A serious pseudo-heroic biography" is a novel written by Mishima Yukio based on real events. It reflects the spiritual vacillation of post-war youth and the restlessness of society. The detailed psychological description analyzes the characters to the point of being revealed. "To this day, it still uncontrollably contains my incredible attachment." This work has a unique status and emotion in Mishima's heart. "The Blue Age" is the fifth novella by Mishima Yukio. It is based on the Light Club Incident (a case in which students from the University of Tokyo initiated black market financial transactions and violated the law). Makoto Kawasaki, a young talent who grew up in a prominent family in a local city, was severely disciplined by his father since childhood, and therefore developed resistance to his father. Cheng is obsessed with rationalism, and took the opportunity of being victimized in a large-scale fraud case to establish an illegal loan sharking financial company. The plan that I thought could successfully conceal the truth and make a net profit was thwarted. Cheng's youth experienced a lonely and nihilistic disillusionment. Mishima Yukio uses an ironic and exaggerated style to give his works a sharp warning and reflection.

Voss the Explorer is an epic masterpiece created by Patrick White based on the experiences of the legendary explorer Ludwig Reichhardt. The protagonist Voss, who is based on Leichhardt, is stubborn, gloomy and unkempt. His plan to explore the Australian outback is funded by the wealthy businessman Mr. Bonnner. While visiting Mr. Bonnner, Voss meets Miss Laura. Laura's parents died when she was young, and she was adopted by her aunt, Mrs. Bonner. She is a unique woman, rational and withdrawn. She and Voss were attracted to each other and exchanged letters with Voss after the expedition set off. But soon, as the expedition went deep into the interior, the two lost contact and could only talk to each other in each other's dreams and fantasies. For Voss, this is not only an adventure to find the secrets and wealth of the outback, but also a pilgrimage that goes deep into human nature and soul. In the magnificent and severe nature, the expedition team went through hardships and challenges, and gradually collapsed. Only the phantom Laura supported Voss towards the end of his life.

In 1998, the editorial board of "Contemporary Library" of Random House in the United States selected "One Hundred Outstanding English Novels of the 20th Century". Joseph Conrad was selected with four works: "Lord Jim", "Heart of Darkness", "Nostromo" and "Spy", surpassing famous European and American novelists such as Joyce, Faulkner, Lawrence and James. Conrad's position in the history of modern Western literature is evident. "Conrad's Letters" (1983-2007) is a collection of letters between Conrad, the most outstanding British writer in the 20th century, and his family, friends, writers, publishers, sponsors, etc. During his lifetime. It has become the most important achievement in the field of Conrad research.

Umberto Eco, the most dazzling Italian writer in the second half of the 20th century, left the world with literary thoughts, in-depth exploration of semiotics, dialectical thinking on philosophy, exploration of religious ethics, and detailed comments on literary works. It is all-encompassing and logically rigorous; fifteen chapters of occasional talks span ancient and modern times and travel to multiple worlds. "Making Enemies" is a "collection of occasional talks" by Umberto Eco. The book contains fifteen articles. The content spans ancient and modern times and travels to multiple worlds. It integrates the writer's multiple identities into one book: From it, we can not only see the philosophical reflections and literary concerns of the scholar Eco, but also the The public intellectual Eco uses the past to satirize the present and criticizes current ills. There are clues of the creation of the novelist Eco, and there is also the old naughty Eco who writes about the life experience with his wonderful ideas. It is all-encompassing, allowing you to be shocked by Eco's talent and at the same time discover a country you have never reached.

A deck of tarot cards that can predict the future! A transshipment book that can be read in infinite reincarnations! A magical and peerless book! Pavic depicts the experiences of two Serbian families who worked for Napoleonic France and anti-Napoleonic Austria respectively, representing Serbia's choice between the two forces of East and West. However, no matter which side they fight for, they are not fighting for the future of Serbia, but for things that have nothing to do with their own nation. At the same time as the Napoleonic Wars, Serbia's revolution to break away from Turkish rule was also in progress. This major event was consciously ignored by the author and was almost never mentioned in the book. This highlights the characters' indifference to their own nation and the absurdity of the war. It does not have an ending in the traditional sense. Everyone in the book is driven by the wheel of fate. While struggling and resisting, they have to accept the guidance of fate.

In "The Race for Wealth," a historical masterpiece that integrates military, technology, and society, William McNeil is committed to exploring the ups and downs of mankind in the past millennium, and tracing our original development path, allowing us to see clearly how the world has step by step reached the terrible dilemma we have to face today. This book first starts with the use of bronze weapons and armor in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC, and then talks about the changes in weapons in 1800 BC and the emergence of professional armies in 1000 BC. Then it is divided into ten chapters and focuses on describing the industrial progress, weapons manufacturing, government management, and social order evolution of the world's major countries in the East and West after 1000 AD, the improvement of European war business and war skills, the pressure brought by violent bureaucratization, the impact of the French political revolution and the British Industrial Revolution on the military, and a brief introduction to the world wars of the 20th century, especially the U. S.-Soviet arms race and planned economy since 1945. The core argument of this book is that the worldwide commercial transformation that began in the 11th century resulted in military operations becoming increasingly subject to the dictates of market forces and the dictates of rulers. McNeil believes that it is only in our era that planned economies began to replace the manipulation of large-scale human activities by market forces. This book directly confronts the major issues facing the world since 1000 AD. The discoveries, hypotheses and extensive knowledge contained in it are enough to make readers re-examine our era and provide us with solid evidence for wiser decisions in the future.

In Europe today, countries interact frequently, and their lifestyles are generally similar. People move around. Immigrants change the places they go, and they are also changed by their surroundings. This pattern was actually formed more than a thousand years ago. The origins of modern Europe can be traced back to a thousand-year transformation. With the rise and fall of empires, the Germanic-speaking Goths, Anglo-Saxons, and Franks, the nomadic Huns, Avars, and Magyars, the Vikings who came across the sea, and the Slavs who replaced the Germans to rule Central and Eastern Europe came and went across the land of Europe. These immigrants coveted the empire's wealth and were also afraid of the empire's violence. They followed the land route, sea route, and river network, either dragging their families with them to find a new home, or forming small teams to plunder, or trading slaves and furs for profit. From Rome to Europe, this is the story of immigrants who changed the world. A thousand years of migration ended the order dominated by the Roman Empire. The barbarians in the eyes of the Romans redrawn the human geography and political map of western Eurasia. In the struggle between the empire and the barbarians, the prototype of modern Europe gradually emerged.

In 2060, three historians from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom decided to travel back in time to World War II to experience history through personal experience. Michael prepares to go to Port Dover to investigate the Dunkirk evacuation. Merope transforms into a maid in a manor to take care of the children who were evacuated from the city to the countryside to avoid the German bombing. Polly comes to a department store in London to become a saleswoman, experiencing the worries and strength of ordinary people under the haze of the London bombing every day. As the research progressed, the three historians soon noticed anomalies. First, the things happening around them began to appear slightly different from historical records, and then the portal back to 2060 could not be opened for unknown reasons. Trapped in World War II-era Britain, the trio became prisoners of time, struggling to find a chance to survive amid the flames of war. What's even more frightening is that perhaps due to their inadvertent actions, history itself is losing control and the outcome of the war will be rewritten...

There is no warning, no precautions, mobile phone pulses attack, humanity is captured instantly, towns fall one after another... Car accidents continue, explosions continue, massacres are rampant, the world is almost crazy... Where can people escape? On October 1st, God was still in heaven, the stock market was around 10,140, ​​and most flights were on time (except for those from Chicago, but that was to be expected). Clayton Riddle, a painter from Maine, is still active on Boylston Street in Boston. He had just reached an agreement with the publisher about the publication of a comic book, so that he could finally support his family by drawing instead of teaching. He had already picked out a small, inexpensive gift for his long-suffering wife, Sharon, and had already thought about what he would buy for his son, Johnny, and then treat himself. Clayton felt that the future was bright. But in an instant, the world changed drastically. The cause of the disaster was an event called "pulse" that occurred at 3:03 pm that day, and the way it spread was through mobile phones, everyone's mobile phones...

Devon, a college student, comes to work at an amusement park called Paradise for a summer job, hoping to forget his girlfriend who abandoned him. However, he is destined to face things much more terrifying than lost love: a murder that happened in the paradise many years ago, a dying child, and the dark truth about life. These will change his world forever...

Between 1966 and 1973, the great writer who would later be called the "King of Horror" had two alter egos: Stephen King, who wrote short horror stories and sold them to raunchy magazines such as "Knight" and "Adam"; and the other was Richard Bachman, who wrote a series of novels but sold them to no one. "Blaze" was the last work written under the name of Buckman during that period. It was not until 30 years later in 2007 that the author revised and published it, and sold hundreds of thousands of copies in one fell swoop. A major case occurred in Gerald Manor: someone sneaked in late at night, brutally murdered an old woman, and kidnapped a baby boy who was only a few months old. He was the heir to this wealthy family and demanded huge wealth from his family. Judging from the traces at the scene, the suspect is male, huge in stature and agile in movement. This was a well-planned crime, but during the investigation, the police could always easily discover the whereabouts of the suspect. All clues point to little Brayton Blaisdell, nicknamed "Blaize", who escaped from an orphanage a few years ago.

After sunset - just after dusk, when twilight falls; it's at that moment that human activity takes on an unnatural quality and nothing is what it seems; it's at that moment that the imagination reaches out its tentacles to catch the shadows sinking into darkness, and the remnants of daylight flee from your body. It was the perfect moment to encounter Stephen King. "After Sunset" is a collection of short stories by Stephen King published in 2008. It was selected for the "Bram Stoker Award" short story collection, and won the "Alex Award" from the American Library Association. It is on the top 12 best-selling lists of "The New York Times" and "Publishers Weekly". The book contains thirteen stories including "Vera", "Gingerbread Girl", "Harvey's Dream", "Rest Stop", "Exercise Bike", "Relics", "Graduation Day Afternoon", "N.", "Cat from Hell", "On Sale", "Mute", "Ayana" and "Dilemma". Except for "Cat from Hell" which is his old work in 1977, the rest were written between 2003 and 2008. One of the longest chapters in the book, "N.," Was adapted into an animated series that was broadcast on the Internet before the new book was published, and aroused heated discussions.

This is a heart-warming novel about "loneliness and love", a masterpiece of reasoning intertwined with sadness, tenderness, horror, youth and evil. Reveal the gentle, bright and lonely side of "Baek Eul-il". "Bai Yiyi" series of pure love works, see how Yiyi plays with healing reasoning. "Flower Song" It turns out that the girl's humming sound comes from this flower. I touched it with my fingertips and felt the body temperature... "Lying Girlfriend" has been deceiving everyone that I have a girlfriend. I didn't expect everyone to believe it, so I had to tell the lie. But he found that she gradually took on a physical form... "Injury" Anri, who has the ability to transfer wounds and pain, has a thin body always covered with large and small scars. But who should fill the huge gap in his heart? "Only You Hear" A girl who is always lonely in class, and a boy who likes to wander in garbage dumps, two souls who originally thought they would be alone for the rest of their lives, are connected through the incredible "mobile phone in the brain". When the call button is pressed, something begins to sprout between each other... There is also a super humorous short story "Knight Underpants." Yiyi writes the pain that is difficult to express into words into a silent cry. There was no sound, but it was shouted into our hearts and resonated strongly. The bells calling each other in the mind, the hoarse screams of pain in the heart for help, the low hum of the flower song of longing, those words that are more firm than anyone else. No one notices, only you hear.

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"Where the Birds Quiet" and "Follow the Magic Bread" are Prishvan's debut novels. After he went to northern Russia to conduct geographical and folklore inspections, he wrote these two records of the natural features and customs of the northern coastal areas of Russia, which are harmonious and unified with the atmosphere and structure of fairy tales.

"A Brief History of Carpentry" is one of the representative works of the nineteenth-century French writer George Sand, which belongs to the creative stage of "social issue novels". The original title of the novel is "Members of the Carpenters' Guild Traveling in France", which not only involves the inside story of the French carpenters' guild in the 19th century, but also tells the love story of two young carpenters and an aristocratic woman. "A Brief History of Carpentry" is rich in content and intricate in plot. It is one of the works that marks the mature stage of George Sand's creative talents.

"War and Peace" centers on the Patriotic War of 1812 and reflects major historical events from 1805 to 1820. Taking the experiences of the four nobles Balkans, Bezukhov, Rostov and Kuragin as the main line, it connects numerous events and characters in the alternate description of war and peace, forming a magnificent encyclopedia-style epic.

"Leaves of Grass" is a romantic poetry collection by the 19th-century American writer Whitman. It contains more than 300 poems. The collection is named after a poem in the collection: "Where there is soil, where there is water, and wherever there is grass, grass grows." The poems in the collection are like the grass that grows all over the American land, full of vitality and exuding an alluring fragrance. They are world-famous masterpieces and ushered in a new era of American national poetry.

This book is a collection of two of the most representative novels by the famous French writer Camus. "The Outsider" reveals the paradoxes in the modern judicial process through the true feelings of a clerk. The social significance of "The Outsider" lies in its profound revelation of absurd reality. "The Plague" is a symbolic novel. In the novel, the story of the people of Ahlan City uniting to fight and defeat the plague fully explains how people should face absurd philosophy. These two works are the shining gems of Camus's literary creation and have become immortal classics in world literature in the twentieth century.

The novel "Anna Karenina" reflects the relationship between people through Anna's emotional life and a huge character system, and vividly and profoundly describes the period when Russian capitalism was just emerging in the mid-19th century.

This book has rich social and psychological content and is written in extremely beautiful prose. It has played an important role in the development of the history of Russian novels and prose. The narrative technique of this novel is also slightly special: it changes from the narrator's first person to the first person inserted into the text, that is, from an external perspective to the protagonist's internally focused narrative. With the help of the progressive relationship between the narrative subjects, it embodies a layer-by-layer in-depth self-examination consciousness.

"A Minimalist History of Humanity" is a masterpiece of world history jointly completed by three historians including Columbia University historians Hayes, Moon, and Wayland. It completely tells the vivid story of human civilization from prehistory to the 21st century. Since its publication, it has received overwhelming praise and has been translated into many languages ​​​​and circulated around the world. It can be said to be a classic with global influence. "A Minimalist History of Humanity" is a must-read for world history courses in American schools and an introductory book for ordinary readers to understand world history. This publication took three years to translate and revise the original English version word for word, trying its best to present the master's work as it is and to give readers a better and more systematic historical work that provides a comprehensive understanding of human history.

Flaubert was a 19th-century French realist novelist. He has been engaged in writing all his life, but the number of finished products is not very large. Including the unfinished novel "Bovard and Pécuchet", there are only five novels and three short stories in total. However, these few works are enough to make him surpass many writers of his generation and enter the ranks of masters. This set of books is the complete collection of his novels, divided into three volumes: the first volume contains "Madame Bovary" and "Salembo"; the middle volume contains "Emotional Education" and "The Temptation of Saint Anthony"; the second volume contains "Three Stories" and "Bovart and Pécuchet".

On June 12, 1942, Anne Frank started writing a diary. In 1944, Minister Bockstein, a member of the Dutch government-in-exile, announced that he hoped to collect relevant first-hand information after the war to witness the suffering of the Dutch people under the German occupation. He specifically mentioned letters and diaries. After hearing the news, Anne decided to publish a book based on her diary after the war. So she began to rewrite and revise the diary, polishing the text, deleting passages that were not interesting enough, and adding some content from memory. At the same time, she also kept her original diary. In the academically valuable "The Diary of Anne Frank: An Annotated Edition" (1989), Anne's first, unedited diary is called Version A to distinguish her second, revised diary (Version B).

The most famous novella masterpiece by the famous American tough guy writer Jack London, a new translation of the classic "Curtain Cloth", and the most outstanding animal-themed novel. Jack London (1879-1916) is one of the most famous American writers and one of the American writers whose works have been translated most internationally. He dropped out of school due to poverty when he was young, worked as a thief, sailor, and gold digger, traveled half of the world, and became famous as a "tough guy writer", but he eventually committed suicide by overdosing on narcotics. His life of ups and downs, rich ups and downs has created his unique style and charm that will last forever. "The Call of the Wild" is Jack London's most famous novella masterpiece and is known as the most outstanding animal-themed novel. It tells the story of a good dog's gradual return to wildness and the process of returning to the wilderness. This process is full of the interweaving and wrestling between wildness and human nature, and ultimately the wildness takes over. The author uses this to profoundly reflect the jungle law of "the weak eats the strong".

The most mature pinnacle work of the most star-studded writer in the 20th century, it truly records Capote's rural life before he became an adult, and reveals the whole process of the writer's childhood loss, budding love, and growing up. The grass harp records the memories of the deceased and plays the elegy of the times. "The Grass Harp" is Capote's most autobiographical masterpiece. It describes the story of three abnormal people - an orphan and two eccentric old ladies who decide to withdraw from the cruel real world and live in seclusion in a tree house. The novel is beautifully written, emotionally delicate and has a sad style. Compared with his famous work "Other Voices, Other Rooms", which is also autobiographical, the Gothic gloom and weirdness unique to the American South have almost disappeared, and the atmosphere is gentle and mellow, often humorous. "The Grass Harp" is Capote's first truly mature novel. It is one of the highest achievements of his life and is recognized as a literary classic of the twentieth century.

Four frustrated and desperate people jointly compose a concerto intertwined with warmth, tears, laughter, and hope. Humiliation, depression, rebellion, suicide... The devastated life finally ushered in a journey of redemption that was a journey of solidarity and heart-warming. The movie of the same name stars the famous movie star Pierce Brosnan. "The Suicide Club" is Nick Hornby's important masterpiece and has been shortlisted for major bestseller lists in the UK and the United States. The novel uses four protagonists to narrate the story in turn, allowing readers to see the different thoughts of the four protagonists from different perspectives, thus directly looking at topics such as social morality, gender, family, and the gap between rich and poor. On the New Year's Eve, there are four frustrated and desperate people in London: the disgraced TV celebrity Martin; the middle-aged woman Maureen who takes care of her disabled adult son but has no life of her own; Jess, a girl who has been unable to get out of the psychological shadow because of the mysterious disappearance of her sister; and the American rock singer JJ, who broke up his band and broke up with his girlfriend. Four people met by chance when they attempted suicide on the rooftop of the "Penthouse" and formed a strange small group of four, thus beginning a journey of redemption to support each other, save others, and save themselves. A humorous urban light comedy, the four protagonists finally discover a heart-warming power in their seemingly hopeless lives, and thus work together to face their own lives.

This collection of short stories by the most star-studded writer in the entire 20th century shows the creative path of the talented writer Capote before he became a famous boy, wandering through Gothic, dreamy, fashionable, snobbish, innocent, tender, lonely, and behind the annoying negativity, decadence and cynicism, a beautiful manuscript of the times. This book collects all the short stories written by Capote throughout his life: from the Gothic and dreamy American South to the fashionable and snobbish East Coast, from the innocent country boy to the sophisticated celebrities in the prosperous and well-read Vanity Fair, all the unforgettable characters and places in Capote's works are exposed in this complete collection. "The Complete Collection of Short Stories" once again proves that he is a current master of the literary form of short stories, not just a literary celebrity, establishing his most noble status in American literature. This edition also adds a newly discovered posthumous work by Capote, "Yachts and the like."

A romantic writer's unscrupulous exposure of his soul, a documentary of human nature that is both black and absurd and directly touching the soul. For many years Capote had dreamed of creating an American version of "In Search of Lost Time," and he named his planned masterpiece "Answered Prayer." Although this ambition was not realized with his premature death, the three remaining chapters present us with a portrait of the upper class and lower class society of his time. In this novel, which unscrupulously mentions the real names of many celebrities, Capote becomes P. B. Jones, a young writer with unknown biological parents and diverse erotic tastes. Following the bohemian life of this beautiful young man, "Answered Prayer" travels all the way from the infamous bars of Tangier to the long ottomans of restaurants on the Basque coast, from literary salons to high-end brothels. The works capture both scheming beauties and sadistic husbands, as well as real celebrities, such as Princess Margaret and the Duchess of Windsor. And most importantly, this viciously hilarious work showcases Capote's ruthless insight and unbridled humor.

The first novel for teenagers written by the British genius Nick Hornby is pungent, humorous, sweet and heartwarming, as well as educational. From the perspective of teenagers, this book explores how to make the right choices after making mistakes while growing up. My name is Sam and I am sixteen years old. I love to skateboard, I mean skateboard. I was doing pretty well a while ago, and good things happened one after another. Like: My mom finally got over her scumbag boyfriend. Like: My art and design teacher asked me if I had ever thought about majoring in art in college. Or like: After weeks of embarrassing myself in public, I finally learned two new board-playing techniques. Beyond that, I met Alicia. But it wasn't long before Alicia and I ran into big trouble: She was pregnant. This is all just stupid, stupid, stupid. I tried to escape, but found it impossible. Countless real-life problems are before me, far more trivial and complicated than I imagined... I choose to bravely take on responsibilities that are inconsistent with my age. At the same time, I want to say: If Tony Blair knew that he would be a prime minister at my age, then I bet that he would use condoms very carefully.

Hornby's classic masterpiece, the urban male version of "BJ's Diary", Hugh Grant performs "the most important British comedy" on the screen. "The Boy" is Hornby's most important masterpiece. It tells the growth and maturity of two characters with typical British humor - one is a twelve-year-old boy who has no childhood and is "the oldest in the world", and the other is a thirty-six-year-old man who "refuses to grow up" and is least willing to mature. The background is our noisy post-industrial era. The story contains love, rock and roll, lies, and true laughter. It is called the urban male version of "BJ Diary". The film of the same name starring Hugh Grant has been hailed as "the most important British comedy".

Adapted from the tomb robbing notes of the third uncle from the Southern School, it completes the perfect ending of the tomb robbing notes in my heart. When I think of Pan Zi's words, "Young mistress, please go forward boldly," I feel inexplicably distressed. I think of the fat man holding the dead Yun Cai and crying. At that time, I was thinking in my heart, I really don't want Pan Zi to die, Yun Cai to die, my third uncle to disappear, my eyes with black glasses will get better, and it would be nice if An Ning wouldn't die either.

Traveled through time and became a faint king? Do your sons and brothers want to rebel? All your cultivation is gone? System activation!

[Sister-brother love x sweet article] Baishan has liked the junior boy next door for a long time. Even the passers-by could see the clues, but the junior boy remained indifferent. However, Baishan, who has always had a strong third sense, felt that the junior boy was always flirting with her intentionally or unintentionally... (Fast-paced, super sweet, the female protagonist is one year older than the male protagonist, the whole story is 1v1, no nonsense, no misunderstanding.)

Aesop lived in ancient Greece in the 6th century BC. He was once a slave, and his divine wisdom and suffering life experience made him a great wise man. When he was released from slavery and gained freedom because of his intelligence, he did not become a priest. Instead, he chose the profession of bard and traveled around, telling fables and spreading wisdom to the uninformed lower-class slaves.

Jules Verne was a French novelist, naturalist, popular science writer, and one of the important founders of modern science fiction. He wrote more than 60 science fiction novels, large and small, in his life. With his large number of works and outstanding contributions, he is known as the "Father of Science Fiction". According to UNESCO, Verne is the world's second most translated writer, second only to Agatha Christie.

Gorky (МаксимГорький, 1868-1936), formerly known as Alexei Maximovich Pishkov (Алексей МаксимовичПещков). A great proletarian writer of the Soviet Union, the founder of socialist and realist literature, a mentor of proletarian revolutionary literature, and one of the founders of Soviet literature. Lenin called him "the most outstanding representative of proletarian art."