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The collection of short stories and short stories "Diamond Age" includes 15 short stories and short stories published by the author in well-known publications such as "People's Literature", "Beijing Literature", "Mountain Flowers", "Qingming" and "The Great Wall" since 2005. The content covers different themes such as contemporary gender emotions, workplace situations, pursuit of faith, historical memory, etc. It contains both the exquisite experience of urban life and the hardships and tribulations of rural life. What is even more commendable is that the author adopts a writing method that combines traditional writing with avant-garde experiments, striving to use novels to describe the turbulence of the times and the joys, sorrows and joys of civilian life.

Fang Yougen, who originally made a living by selling tea, accidentally entered Huizhou, the "sea of ​​cultural relics", and never returned on the road of searching for antiques. Here there is greed, desire, gambling, and gambling... Where there is no action, there is fakeness, there is where whims are born. He made his fortune with the huge "Huang Binhong", but also lost because of the huge "Huang Binhong". In the end, should we continue the game or find ourselves?

"Red Mole" is a novel about educated youth. The author uses the first person voice to tell the story of how the young people in the educated youth farms in the Aksu region of Xinjiang struggled tenaciously, became self-reliant, and finally came out of their own arduous journey. The novel is powerful in writing and delicate in emotion, covering aspects such as emotions, marriage and love, historical legends, folk customs, etc. It praises and praises the truth, goodness and beauty deep in the hearts of the people of Xinjiang, and ruthlessly lashes out at the falsehood, ugliness and evil in life. Many plots are soul-stirring and passionate to read. In particular, he ruthlessly dissects and criticizes the "ego" deep in his mind and soul, truly reflecting the same years of educated youth, different wind, frost, rain and snow; the same educated youth farm, but different life directions.

The world is so chaotic that it is difficult to find Tao Weng's name. People say that hidden behind these complications is the reflection of human nature. But is the lake surface that reflects human nature and is called the world as clear and transparent as a mirror? Behind the entanglements of love and hate in the world, the distinction between good and evil in human nature, and all grudges, the changes of the times and the helplessness of reality are unavoidable.

To be disqualified in the human world is to lose the qualifications to be a human being. This is the last work of Dazai Osamu's life, and it is also his important work. The book is composed of the author's preface, postscript, and three letters of the protagonist Oba Yezo. It describes the protagonist's continuous sinking from adolescence to middle age in order to escape reality. He experiences self-exile, alcoholism, suicide, and numbing himself with drugs, and finally moves towards the tragedy of self-destruction step by step. In the process of self-denial, he expresses his inner depression and desire to be loved... Osamu Dazai cleverly depicts his life and thoughts through the life experiences of the protagonist Ye Zang. This novel has always been regarded as his autobiographical work, and it raises the most real painful issues of being a human being. From the stagnant writing, you can understand the deep pain in his heart. After completing this work, Osamu Dazai finally chose to throw himself into the water to draw the final ending for himself.

A graduation trip connects four years of college memories. It seems that only when you are gradually away from it instead of being in it, the emotional experience becomes more real. There are those who are ignorant and stumbling when they first enter the campus, and there are those who are disapproving and lazy after getting used to it; there are classmates who have no contact with each other after a falling out, and there are friendships, misunderstandings, quarrels, forgiveness, and reconciliation that go round and round; there are the occasional madness after leaving their parents and breaking away from the shackles, and there are also those who have clear goals and work hard in the study room. It seems that this is everyone's university, and it seems that this is just the protagonist's university. Perhaps, everyone has experienced some things, but everyone's experience presents a unique context. Only after peeling off the layers, this context gradually becomes clear, and the search for the past life has just begun.

The four-act play "Remnant Mist" was written in 1939 and is based on the social reality of Chongqing. In the play, Director Xi shouted for resistance to the war and was sanctimonious, but he was also greedy for money, lustful and power-seeking. He not only used his power to play with women, but also colluded with traitors to steal intelligence for them. Later, he was defeated and captured, which put him in jail. He had no choice but to confess the traitor, but at this time, this woman with great supernatural powers openly went to a banquet at the home of an important government official.

"The Missing Child" is the fourth book in the "Neapolitan Quartet". The novel focuses on the prime and later years of Lila and Elena ("I"), bringing a heartbreaking end to their friendship that has lasted for more than fifty years. For the sake of love and writing, "I" left my husband and returned to Naples with my two daughters. I inevitably became close to Lila again and the city I had wanted to escape from. "I" and Lila even got pregnant and gave birth to a child in the same year, and experienced the horrific and brutal Naples earthquake. Everything fell apart and everything was about to be rebuilt.

Because the plane he was traveling on was shot down by rebels over the Republic of Congo, the protagonist fell into an isolated virgin forest and encountered primitive tribes and extreme living conditions... This book was selected as the best young adult novel in Spain in 2014!

The workplace story of three young policemen is gripping. The choice between emotion and responsibility requires not only loyalty, but also courage. From their initial ignorance and arrogance, through Kanter's ups and downs in police life, they finally found the true value of life and grew into real police officers. The love story of three young policemen is beautiful and touching. The collision between reason and sensibility not only bursts out sparks of romance and enthusiasm, but also teaches them what responsibility and responsibility are. Three brothers under the same roof embarked on a young adventure for dreams and responsibilities, for love and friendship...

A young intern doctor was stabbed several times, and there is a lot of confusion about who the murderer was. Was it a villain or a deliberate revenge? Is it a conflict between doctor and patient or is there something else hidden? Is the deceased innocent or does he have other ulterior secrets? A major case of murder and medical corruption that was fully investigated by the public security economic investigation and criminal investigation personnel has begun. Family, friendship, and romance are entangled, and the cycle of desire and sin is presented one by one. [Tips from this book] Doctors want to get more commission by prescribing medicines to a cold patient. In addition to prescribing expensive medicines with the same efficacy, doctors will also use the trick of prescribing multiple medicines. For example, to cure a cold, you only need to prescribe three medicines: one anti-inflammatory, one antitussive, and one traditional Chinese medicine. When prescribing these three medicines, the doctor can deliberately prescribe two medicines with adverse reactions, and then prescribe two more to cure the adverse reactions. Based on this calculation, the patient will probably have to pay for five drugs in the end.

Amy is an ordinary girl who grew up in her hometown. She married the boyfriend of her middle school days. Everything seemed to be going well. Amy was content and happy. Unexpectedly, her husband was sent to serve in an African country, and she had never heard of that country before. Soon I received a notice from the government that the situation had changed, and it was getting worse. If she had imagined it would be so bad, she would never have boarded the plane! What happened, please watch "Amy's African Adventures".

From a jadeite family to nothing, from a rich and carefree family to living on the street, he was teased by fate; from a passionate young man to a deceitful businessman, from scratch to a jade empire, he created the myth of business war. A legendary story spanning three generations, a family epic that spans more than a century begins! Waiting for a story that will definitely lead to revenge. However, in this seamless revenge plan... Who is dead and who is the lucky one?

A powerful work created by a senior lawyer with 15 years of accumulation. This work is a peek into the lawyer industry. It reflects the growth of a family lawyer, but it also has the wonderful story of a man and a woman in an invisible marriage. The growth story of a family lawyer, a splendid love affair in the mortal world, a battle between ideals and reality... If you survive the difficult times, you can live the life you want. This work aims to tell the truth: the soul bids farewell to war and chaos, has the courage and strength to live the life you want. You have to be the brave man in your own story. If you are good, the world will be good.

In Tucker, Oregon, a bank manager was murdered after he accidentally discovered that a man named Esteban Fernandez had sent money to a high-ranking government official. The bank manager issued three warning letters before his death. One was sent to himself; one was sent to his ex-wife; and the other was sent to an old friend in the city who opened a security company named after himself-Jim Dandy Security Company. Now two of the recipients have died, plus Tucker's postmaster. Jim quickly discovered the danger of this information. He could no longer support it alone, so he had to seek help from his peers, so of course the protagonist this time was the Justice Security Team. Inspired by the work of Arkansas Black Oak, get ready for a thrilling journey with an unpredictable future. (Just watching the protagonist's daily talk will make you laugh out loud in the series)

A bestseller. A great book that will shake up everything you took for granted. The most thought-provoking work of 2016 - Huffington Post. Social norms and self-awareness often conflict, sometimes even making people question life. But there is no need to be angry and lonely. Adversity brings growth. Come listen to the author's story and experience his new perspective on problems.

"The Field of Life and Death" is an early novella written by Xiao Hong, also known as "The Field of Life and Death". It mainly tells about the poor and helpless life of farmers in Northeast China.

Du Canghai, a 17-year-old boy born in a large courtyard, originally had the hope of his family: to be admitted to college. Realize the dream of a golden phoenix flying out of your parents' henhouse. But the young and reckless Du Canghai smashed the testicles of Sun Gaodi, a high-ranking disciple, with a bamboo pole, which put a heavy burden on the whole family. The eldest brother Du Tianhe and his girlfriend Mi Xiaosu have been in love for more than ten years. After Mi Xiaosu went on a hunger strike, his parents finally agreed to their marriage, but they were completely wiped out by Du Canghai's bamboo pole. The second brother Du Changjiang and his fiancée Guo Limei got pregnant before marriage and were eager to use the wedding to hide their ugly appearance.

"Arifang" is the name of a place where rich and poor ordinary people live, and common trivial things happen every day. The "archway" is a signboard of the cultural family, which plays out the contradiction between the benevolence, justice, etiquette, integrity and shame of traditional culture and the weakness of human nature. The "archway" is a face of people's daily life. However, when the expansion of survival needs and selfish desires encounters the lack of culture and civilization, do people abandon their bad habits or abandon the "archway"?

In the era of silence, life flows as usual, and individuals strive to go retrograde. The book contains eight gripping stories, asking from different angles the choices young people have to make today: Compromise with the world, or remain angry? Whether we want freedom or safety, entanglement and hesitation make people weak, and weak people are often swallowed up by the times. Ahua's story is rich in layers: from politics to love, from the world to people's hearts, but the only thing in common among them is human weakness, struggle and hesitation.

The fireworks on New Year's Eve, the journey to the sea, wandering in the suburbs when you are in the mood, drinking and imagining bears at midnight... In this series of time and space triggered by a series of accidental deviations from daily life, those arrogant middle-aged people who seem to represent the adventure and profit of the past ten years, and the brand new Millennials who seem to be standing on the ruins, they meet, reunite, get tired, and separate. Drunk confessions are often paired with habitual disappointment, the pursuit of love is always accompanied by selfishness, and dreams about literature and art often escape into the void. Humorous, bitter, and charming. "Outing" can be regarded as Buckwheat's most masterful work to date.

The story of "Leopard Change" describes an individual person, and it can be roughly seen in the life stages of childhood, adolescence, youth, and middle age. Personal experience corresponds to the stages before the war, World War II, after World War II, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the opening of the country. It needs to be thought about in these historical backgrounds. Of course, there is another important stage: the Western world after going abroad. In addition, "Leopard Change" includes a long preface by editor Tong Ming. From the perspective of world literature, how to view the global nature of Mu Xin's literature also shows that Tong Ming and Mu Xin started brewing in the summer of 1993, and first published the 13 American English versions of AnEmptyRoom ("Empty Room"). By the 90th anniversary of Mu Xin's birth, the complete Chinese version of 16 chapters was finally published. This was a "literary appointment" that spanned more than 20 years. The title of the book comes from the "Book of Changes": "The great man changes from tiger to tiger, the villain changes from face to face, and the gentleman changes from leopard to leopard." Leopard change is a process from weak to strong, which implies the spiritual growth history of an artist.

This book contains more than 100 short stories written by the author in the past three years, all of which are based on rural areas in Guanzhong, Shaanxi. For example, Lao Mingzhong, a tomb robber, wanted to seize the funerary objects and sell them to make a living, but instead he dug out a beautiful woman from the tomb and married her. The wolf slashed open the mother wolf's belly with a knife, but the wolf cubs were born early, and a life-and-death struggle between man and wolf began. Wangfa killed the dog to save his wife, but the dog was half skinned and struggled to escape. The gourd head is a cow. It trampled its own blind calf to death, and finally struggled and died at the calf's burial place. Mr. Bi, an old Chinese medicine doctor, can stick a hollow needle in the patient's belly and burn it into a lamp. Mr. Zidan loved calligraphy and wrote his own epitaph on rice paper with rice soup. Wandouhua sent her husband to the police station for love, but she was imprisoned with her beloved man in handcuffs. Alfalfa Flower loves her man deeply and is willing to treat the alfalfa field as her new house. In order to let her father-in-law live a few more years, the peasant woman Ying Qian'er secretly squeezed milk into his father-in-law's rice bowl...

"The Book of Dreams" is Kerouac's original private diary, which faithfully records about two hundred of his dreams. In this book, he takes the "improvisational writing" method to the extreme, recording his thoughts in a more real, original and unmodified way. The dreams may seem chaotic, but whether he is sleeping or awake, Kerouac is always concerned about his interpersonal relationships. In the dream, he worked with his mother, met his long-dead father, went on a road trip with friends, returned to the high school football field, and resumed his job on the railroad... Although the characters and scenes were ever-changing, they often echoed the plots in his novels.

"Visions of Girard" is Kerouac's semi-autobiographical novel, which shows the tender side of Kerouac that is unknown under the label of "King of the Beats". The book tells the story of the life and death of his brother Gilad, who died young. The reason why it is titled "Illusion" is because the author combines memories and imagination of childhood scenes to portray a saintly and sensitive image of Gilad: Although he suffered great pain caused by illness in his short life, his wisdom and morality always infected the people around him. This image had a huge impact on Kerouac and triggered his deep reflection on the meaning of existence.

"The Vanity of Duroz" is the last semi-autobiographical novel written by Jack Kerouac during his lifetime. It records the life of young Kerouac (Duluoz) in Lowell and New York from 1935 to 1946, as well as his second worldly experience. It tells the story of his adventures in merchant ships, naval bases, prisons and other places during the World War, and embodies Kerouac, who was born in a poor family, and his unflinching fighting spirit in his youth as well as his unruly personality of not compromising the secular world and yearning for freedom.

"My Purple Scented Novel" tells the story of two writers, Jocelyn Tabet and Parker Sparrow, and reveals some of the dark sides of the literary world and the publishing world. From the first-person perspective of Parker Sparrow, the novel tells the story of two good friends who are obsessed with literature and started their careers at the same time, but their development trajectories are completely different: after Tabat accidentally became famous by writing scripts, his literary path became smoother and smoother, and he became a national writer in his middle age. Sparrow, who had published works in magazines before him, published several novels but was always depressed, until one time Sparrow accidentally read the first draft of a novel at Tabat's house. Under an uncontrollable impulse, Sparrow made a move that changed the fate of the two of them.

"Big Sur" is an autobiographical novel by Kerouac. The protagonist Duluoz is a writer and an idol worshiped by the young "Beat Generation". He was invited to take a vacation to Big Sur, hoping to be close to nature and away from its fanatical admirers. But contrary to expectations, the nature he saw made him feel oppressed. He even imagined that the sound of waves crashing against the embankment was a punishment for all his sins. The over-alcoholic Duroz nearly suffered a mental breakdown after experiencing a crazy affair, which also made him painfully reflect on the failure of the Beats' pursuit of their ideals.

This book is Margaret Atwood's masterpiece novel. It is based on a notorious crime in the 1840s and tells an intricate but poetic story. At first glance, the novel is full of realistic narrative style, but as the plot progresses, the writing style naturally reverses, sex, murder and class conflict are mixed together, and the resin of imagination flows into the gaps of historical events. Through the switching of characters' perspectives, the story achieves a brilliant fragmentation effect. Evil and dignity, tragedy and beauty coexist, and reality and fiction coexist. The most extensive social picture of a specific era unfolds before us.

The sequel to Atwood's acclaimed "Oryx and Crake" and the second installment in the "Mad Adam" series. In "The Year of the Flood", the flood that mankind has long feared has finally arrived. This "waterless flood" had nothing to do with the biblical floods sent by God to sweep away evil and sin: it was a rapidly spreading disease that could not be suppressed by biological means, engulfing city after city like fire, turning the world into a slaughterhouse of corpses. This "flood" killed tens of millions of people and almost wiped out all traces of humankind. Ryan and Toby became the few survivors. In the shadow of a corrupt ruling power and the threat of a new genetically engineered species, Ryan and Toby must quickly decide their next move and not just lock themselves in a temporary safe house. The floods described in "The Year of the Flood" have nothing to do with the floods God sent to sweep away evil and sin in biblical stories. "The Year of the Flood" takes us into a weird world - both weird as the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and as absurd as "A Clockwork Orange". Everything has fallen apart. In a sense, Atwood's new film is a companion piece to his 2003 film, Oryx and Crake.

Zenia is beautiful, smart, and greedy; sometimes strong and sometimes weak, sometimes helpless and sometimes ruthless; she is a man's dream and a woman's nightmare. She is dead. To be 100% sure, Toni, Roz and Charisse went to her funeral. Zenia had taken away their husbands and kidnapped their lovers. Five years later, when these three sisters-in-law women shared lunch, the impossible happened: "waves of malice flowed out of the body like cosmic rays," and Zenia returned...

This book is a full-length novel that tells the little-known stories of Peng Tao's childhood studies and revolutionary achievements in his youth. The book is divided into two parts: upper and lower. The previous article tells the story of Peng Tao's acquaintance with the Communist Party members when he was in school in Poyang. He grew from an ordinary student to the head of the Children's League and began to engage in revolutionary work. The next article tells the story of him leaving Poyang County to study in Nanchang, fighting against the enemy under the leadership of the underground party of the Communist Party of China, and embarking on the revolutionary road step by step...

The famous writer Isherwood's life masterpiece, the most famous story of Berlin in the 1930s. On the eve of the Nazis coming to power, "The Devils in Berlin" went wild in Berlin. "Time" magazine's top 100 English-language novels of the 20th century, one of the "50 most enjoyable books of the 20th century".

Renting a house is not easy, but buying a house is even harder. This is a story about buying a house in Beipiao that is related to you and me. Yang Tianle, who had just graduated, came to Beijing with his travel bag. I thought that since I had received a good education and had found a decent job, everything would fall into place if I could settle down here and have children. But he did not expect that even a stable place to live would become increasingly out of reach in the next few years. Racing against housing prices, dealing with landlords, and competing with intermediaries... He finally understood that in many things, the starting line was a thousand miles away. The so-called "fairness" is just a kind of procedural justice. A few years of higher education and not being too stupid alone can't cross the class. And if you can't buy a house this time, you may never be able to buy a house in your lifetime...

"Glory" is a Russian novel written by Vladimir Nabokov, a recognized master of novels in the twentieth century. Later, he and his son Dmitry Nabokov jointly translated the book into English and published it in 1971. This is a beautiful book about growing up, a rare youthful "age of innocence" written by Nabokov. The protagonist Martin began his life of exile with his mother due to the Russian Revolution, and traveled to Greece, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Germany and the south of France; he completed his self-growth along with the lingering love, and gradually walked out of the hesitation between courage and cowardice; he transformed from a dreamer and a daydreamer into an actioner and a realistic adventurer, heeding the call from the distant deep memory, obeying the guidance of inner impulse and romantic passion, crossing the border regardless of all, and finally gaining glory through practicing courage. This version was translated from Russian by the famous translator Shi Guoxiong, which retains the charm and beauty of the original text to the greatest extent.

At the end of the 18th century, on the eve of the French Revolution, the European continent was immersed in the atmosphere of "the storm is about to come". In order to bring light and hope to Spain under the autocratic imperial rule, two academicians of the Royal Academy of Spain, the short and fat librarian Don Hermogenes and the lean admiral Don Pedro Zarate, accepted the commission from their colleagues and went to Paris together to find and strive to secretly bring back the 28-volume Encyclopedia, which represents enlightenment and progress. In Spain at that time, the "Encyclopedia" had been included in the list of banned books by the Inquisition, so this book-hunting journey was destined to be full of dangers, and those who wanted to stop them were not only bandits, but also some colleagues from the Royal Academy of Spain. Through the perspective of two book hunters, combining historical facts and imagination, Spanish national writer Arturo Pérez-Revert will recreate the historical panorama of the turbulent times and turbulent undercurrents of France's Great Revolution.

In the winter of 1919-1920, Maugham, who was forty-five years old, came to China and traveled 1,500 miles up the Yangtze River. The product of his trip was these short or long "materials" that could have been written into novels, which were concatenated into "a set of narratives of his trip to China"; In 1922, when Maugham was achieving great success as a playwright, short story and novelist, and even a socialite, he put it all aside and embarked on a long and arduous trip to Southeast Asia. The contents of "His Majesty's Representative" are selected from Maugham's travel notes written after these two trips. "Translation Huacai" is a new book series launched by Shanghai Translation Publishing House. The theme is clear and published in volumes, with five types in each volume, with exquisite covers that match the theme style. It is designed by the new generation of outstanding designer Zhou Weiwei. In terms of content, we make full use of the powerful and widely recognized translation resources of Shanghai Translation Publishing House to extract famous works from them into a volume. The theme of the first volume is "Wandering", including Gide, Hemingway, Lawrence, Nagai Kafeng, Maugham The travel writings of five famous literary figures include Gide's "Abandoning Travel", Hemingway's "Paris Never Ends", Lawrence "The Wandering Stranger", Nagai Kafeng's "Whispers on the Lotus Wind" and Somerset Maugham's "On His Majesty's Representation".

"ab coral" is the 2013 Akutagawa Prize-winning work. It includes the Akutagawa Award-winning work "Ab Coral" and three short stories "Ball", "Minkei's Flower" and "Rainbow". "Ab Coral" is a fragment of childhood memories. It re-examines the story of six years old from the perspective of ten years later and forty years later, giving people a unique sense of time. The article tells the story of an only daughter born in an intellectual family in the Showa era, from birth to growing up to accompanying her parents on her last journey. A father and daughter who originally lived in a three-story building moved to a small house because of the war. The family hired a housekeeper, and the housekeeper's relationship with her father became increasingly close. The home slowly became what the housekeeper expected. As a result, the close relationship between father and daughter was destroyed, and the child decided to leave this home that no longer belonged to him. "Ball", "Dome Hui's Flower" and "Rainbow" are semi-fantasy short stories with the same little girl Min Hui as the protagonist.

"Babylon" centers on two middle-class couples living in an apartment in the suburbs of Paris, telling the story of a murder caused by a "spring party". The sixty-two-year-old heroine reconstructs the story of a murder case involving a neighbor and his wife. The motivation is difficult to fully explain, but we seem to be able to detect the danger of collapse hidden under the ordinary life, and can feel the pessimistic and solemn atmosphere contained in the entangled intimate relationship. Under the appearance of a crime novel, Yasmina Reza uses her unique humor and sensitivity to unfold absurd dramas about daily trivialities, husband-wife relationships, and social life, showing the loneliness of losing belonging in a complicated world. He has won the Renaudot Literature Prize and the Goncourt Prize for Secondary School Students.

During the Second World War, a junior officer named Christopher Hadley Martin on the British naval escort fleet was hit by a torpedo and washed up on a rock in the ocean by the waves. He fought desperately for survival alone in the harsh environment and eventually died. However, it is not until the end of the story that the author reveals to the readers in an unexpected way: Martin's torture on the rocks is actually just the suffering of a sinful soul in purgatory. The author wants to use this to warn mankind that if you persist in your own greed and sin, you will eventually fall into hell and never recover; and only by destroying the human nature of greed can your soul be expected to undergo the baptism of purgatory and be finally saved.

"Dark Revealed" is Golding's important masterpiece and won the James Tait Black Memorial Award, Britain's oldest and most prestigious literary award. This is a dark book illuminated by fire. The struggle between good and evil that continues from "Lord of the Flies" is placed in a modern context by the author, which is also mixed with religious fanaticism, terrorism, abnormal psychology and sexual behavior, and desperate attempts to escape from the world. Under the author's calm writing style, various characters move toward their own destined destinations, while also considering people's beliefs about themselves and the world. The novel profoundly reveals that the "darkness" of human nature not only exists deep in people's hearts, but also exists in the external modern world: "You have nowhere to escape."

"Pyramid" is Golding's important masterpiece. It is a masterpiece that deeply explores the possibility of love in a dark human nature and world. The novel is divided into three parts, which capture three fragments of the protagonist Oliver's life: the summer when he was eighteen years old, his first vacation at Oxford University, and his return to the old place at the age of forty-five. The structure of the novel is modeled on Beethoven's sonata design, which is extremely artistic and has profound implications: the theme that shines brightly on the top of this pyramid is "love": "Be kind when you get along with others; if you have love, you will live, if you don't love, you will die."

"Church Spire" is Golding's important masterpiece. It is a masterpiece that deeply explores the intricacies of human faith and despair, ideals and reality. Patriarch Jocelyn of the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary felt a real call from the Lord to build a church steeple four hundred feet high for the glory of the Lord. He naively thought that as long as he was "pious" and had a firm "will", God would definitely help him build a spire that reaches heaven from the ground. Of course, the result was a complete failure. In "Church Spire", Golding places the hope of mankind in seeking an ideal state, and also reveals the real living conditions in which ideals are eventually shattered; noble aspirations and ugly reality, the struggle for good and sinful desires are intertwined; through the intertwined images of absurdity and reality, and the artistic technique of using both symbol and metaphor, the author profoundly reveals the truth of human nature and society.

"Jing Yan" is a famous novel written by Nagai Kafeng. The protagonist is a geisha named Komashiro. After she got married, she retired for a time, but due to her husband's death, she returned to the flower world after seven years. There are vivid psychological descriptions and the appearances of various characters in the work, and the writing style is vivid and sophisticated. This way of writing can only be mastered by Nagai Kafeng. Known as the successor of Edo literature, he appropriately changed the word "vulgar" into "elegant".

This book includes two representative novellas by Kafeng Nagai, "Yi Dong Qi Tan" and "The Rainy Season". In "The Story of the East", Kafeng Nagai used teasing and mocking strokes to describe Japan's dark situation and strange social atmosphere during the war years, and made sharp and ruthless mockery of the police's arrogance and ignorance as well as the dark era before Japan launched the war. The author watched his country slide into the abyss of war with sadness and indifference. "The Rainy Season" describes a cafe waitress named Junjie who came to the city from the countryside. In the specific environment of Ginza, downtown Tokyo, and influenced by the westward spread of the east at that time, she became a woman who indulged in fornication with the opposite sex and had no sense of shame. Her depravity reflects the moral decay caused by the social atmosphere at that time, and she has the tendency of civilized criticism.

"The Death Box" is Sontag's second novel, an indescribable psychological novel. Didi, a young man who lived a normal life on the surface, once attempted suicide. On a business trip, he killed a railway worker in a tunnel, but could not confirm the truth of the matter. In the swinging carriage, he fell in love with a blind girl for comfort. From then on, he fought his inner demons and tried to escape the truth. However, under the temptation of death and the sense of guilt, the weak Didi entered the dark tunnel again. The horrific murder reappeared, and he finally entered the death box... This is a story about people committing suicide and the hallucinations after suicide.

"The Benefactor" is Susan Sontag's debut novel, her first novel. Sontag's pioneering work has profound writing, absurd plot, and a mixture of fantasy and reality. This is not a novel in the conventional sense. Sontag borrowed the form of a memoir to complete a biography of a person's life that is a mixture of reality and dreams. It is cleverly conceived, filled with fiction and reality, and is completely natural. It also plants various deep philosophies and thoughts in the smooth writing.

Zweig's collection of short and medium stories, including "The Invisible Collection", "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life", "The Story of Chess" and other masterpieces. Among them, "The Story of Chess" was the last novella published by Zweig during his lifetime. In 1939, Zweig fled to Brazil with his family, and the story background of "The Story of Chess" is set on a ship bound for Buenos Aires. By chance, a mysterious stranger played against world chess champion Czentovic and easily defeated him. But just as the game continued, the stranger encountered an unexpected situation... This was his last game of chess. Where is he from? What kind of experiences have you had? His story is surprising and sad at the same time.

"Yesterday's Journey" is a collection of Zweig's short stories and short stories, including 8 articles, including "Mendel, the Used Bookseller", "Emotional Confusion", "Yesterday's Journey" and other famous works. "Journey to Yesterday" is Zweig's posthumous work. After decades of gathering dust in the archives of a London publishing house, it has finally seen the light of day. The novel tells the story of the love story between Ludwig, a talented doctor of chemistry who was born in poverty, and his boss, the wife of Privy Councilor G, who fell in love but could not get their wish.

"Erica Ewald's Love" is a collection of Zweig's short stories and short stories, including 8 articles. He is best known for his early work "Erika Ewald's Love". The novel tells the story of the first and last love in the life of a girl who has just begun to have an affair. She is sensitive, reserved, silent, and admires a talented violinist. But out of youthfulness, or perhaps out of fear of the sudden advent of worldly life, she ran away from the violinist's house on the day she agreed to devote herself to him...