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These days she leads a double life and feels that she is a more interesting and complex person because of it. West Walsbury is dotted with factories, warehouses, criss-crossed roads, winding roads, and densely covered with overgrown railway cuttings and dilapidated canals, just like the lines on Mars. Therefore, the wasteland itself is like a shadow country. The dark side of Lumich is an unknown land for people who have been influenced by the light of culture and scholarship in universities. Of course, for those who work at Pringle, the reverse is also true: the university and all it stands for is in the shadows-foreign, mysterious, and a little intimidating. The two regions each have their own values, each have their own highlights, each have their own language and manners, everything is very different, and fluttering back and forth across the border between them, Luo Bin feels like a spy; so, as a spy is likely to encounter, he is occasionally tortured by bouts of doubt: whether justice is on his side.

The masterpiece of Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature. Olga Tokarczuk is a famous contemporary Polish writer. "The Ancient Times and Other Times" is her famous work. The novel has a total of 84 chapters, each chapter is named after "xxx time". It tells the story of various characters in ancient times, even animals, plants and things, from different perspectives: a girl who touches the border of the world, a landowner addicted to puzzle games, a lonely housewife, an old woman who curses the moon, and even angels, water ghosts, pugs, mycelium, small coffee grinders... The life stories of three generations reflect the turbulent historical destiny of Poland in the 20th century. Primeval is a place, located at the center of the universe. Its four borders are guarded by four angels. The world beyond the ancient times does not exist. People who think they have stepped out of the ancient times are actually standing on the border and dreaming that they have entered the outside world. When they wake up, they go home and regard their dreams as memories. Borders also produce ready-made people, as if they came from the outside world...

David Lodge was born in London in 1935. He studied at the University of London in his early years, received a PhD from the University of Birmingham, and is a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire and the French Chevalier des Arts for his literary contributions. Since 1960, he has taught in the English Department of the University of Birmingham. He retired in 1987 to engage in creative writing. He is also an honorary professor of modern British literature at the University of Birmingham. This book is the first of the Rocky Campus Trilogy. In the novel, teachers from universities in two different countries are focused on portraying them. They participated in an inter-school exchange project and thus experienced each other's life on the other side of the Atlantic: politics, lifestyle, students, colleagues, and in the end even exchanged wives, which ended badly.

"The Blind Story" is one of the masterpieces of the Japanese literary master Junichiro Tanizaki's return to classical tradition. During Japan's Warring States Period, daimyo wars raged. The most beautiful woman in the Warring States Period, Oda Nobunaga's sister, Mrs. Aichi, was initially betrothed to Asai Nagamasa by Nobunaga. Soon Nobunaga and Nagamasa went to war, and Nagamasa was forced to commit suicide. The wife and her three daughters were displaced during the war, and later remarried Shibata Katsuie. In the end, they were defeated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and committed suicide in the castle tower. The situation is changing and the fate is unpredictable. In the chaos, there is only one blind musician who humbly and secretly loves his wife and always stays by her side...

"The Wall" is a collection of short stories and short stories by Kobo Abe. The whole book is divided into three parts. The first "The Crime of Mr. S. Karma" is Abe's earliest avant-garde masterpiece. It won the 25th Akutagawa Prize and established his position in the literary world. In the novel, the protagonist wakes up one night and realizes that he has forgotten his name. Losing his name caused him to directly lose his right to exist in reality, and he became the target of criticism. After experiencing various strange and irrational phenomena, he himself turned into a wall. In the second film, "The Raccoon of Babel," the protagonist's shadow was eaten by a strange beast, the raccoon, and turned into a transparent man with only his eyeballs left. The third volume contains four short stories. "The Red Cocoon" won the second Post-War Literature Prize and tells the story of a homeless man who eventually transforms into an empty cocoon. "The Flood" tells the story of humans turning into liquid and eventually flooding the entire world. The protagonist of "Magic Chalk" is a poor painter who accidentally discovers that things drawn with red chalk will become real objects without being exposed to sunlight, so he shuts himself up and attempts to design a new world. The last piece, "Career," satirizes capitalism for turning everything, even people themselves, into raw materials and processed into commodities. The concept of "wall" is consistent throughout the book. The author describes the "lonely person" in modern cities and civilized society through the protagonist who is transformed into a wall, an empty cocoon or a chalk drawing. Through absurd plots, he shows a real world that seems absurd but is actually real.

"Dream of the Floating Bridge" depicts the protagonist Jiu'er's strange attachment to his mother, or to his mother's breasts. The scene of sucking on the breast of my birth mother as a toddler is unforgettable. After his biological mother passed away and his father married another woman, Jiu'er showed no affection towards his stepmother. Even when he was thirteen or fourteen years old, he often sucked his stepmother's breasts. My father also turned a blind eye. It wasn't until his stepmother gave birth to a baby but was sent away that Jiu'er began to realize the inappropriateness of his relationship with the wet nurse. The baby may be the child of the stepmother and Jiu'er. This incestuous relationship became the talk of the neighborhood for a while. Later, his father and stepmother died one after another, and Jiu'er went to find the baby and raise it alone.

"Sand Girl" is Kobo Abe's most representative novel and a representative masterpiece of modern Japanese literature. It has received high praise from around the world and is called "a great harvest of modern Japanese literature". A man who went to the seaside dunes to collect insects accidentally entered a sand cave home where only one woman lived. He was imprisoned in it and could only dig sand day after day. He tried many ways to escape. After repeated failures, the man gradually adapted to the life in the sand cave. When he finally got the chance to escape, he had given up trying. The novel uses realistic techniques to express unrealistic and incredible plots, depicting the boring absurdity of ordinary people's daily lives, as well as the essence and truth of life that exists in it. The novel was published in 1962 and won the Yomiuri Literature Prize the following year. It was adapted into a movie in 1964 and has been translated and published in more than 20 countries and regions. Won the French 1967 Best Foreign Literature Award.

The Vietnamese-American writer's reflective work on "Rethinking the Vietnam War" rivals "Apocalypse Now" and is also a direct reference to Coppola's profound work. "The Sympathizer" combines history, politics, espionage, thriller and other elements to tell the story of a North Vietnamese spy lurking in South Vietnam. The background of the story is set in 1975, when the Viet Cong occupied Saigon and the U. S. Military retreated. The protagonist, whose true identity is the Viet Cong, fled to the United States with his South Vietnamese "boss", where he continued espionage work and reported enemy information to North Vietnam. During this period, as a refugee and a spy, he experienced extraordinary physical and mental torture and struggle. The novel focuses on portraying the characteristics and identity of his "sympathizer". He has deep sympathy for his Vietnamese compatriots, North Vietnamese comrades, South Vietnamese soldiers, vulnerable Vietnamese refugees and other minority groups in white American society. The protagonist carries a dual identity, experiences and crosses two cultures, and is confused and struggles to explore himself and identity. This is also one of the eternal themes of literature. The author uses a unique vision and ingenious plot settings to allow readers to go deep into the protagonist's confession and follow the clues, and they suddenly realize it near the end.

A Tibetan version of "A Dream of Red Mansions", a stunning masterpiece by the talented Tibetan female writer Yang Zhen, a milestone in contemporary Tibetan literature; the grand prize of the National Ethnic Minority Literature "Horse Award". In 2002, it was adapted into a 20-episode TV series "Once Upon a Time in Lhasa" and was broadcast on CCTV, which had a profound impact. After careful revision during the author's lifetime, the latest version was published in 2018. After the death of his father, the family's financial situation plummeted. The second daughter, Yangji Dolma, who had been regarded as unlucky since she was a child, was sent to the countryside by her mother, moving between different manors and living under the shelter of others. As a result, she saw all kinds of things in life and people's hearts, including greed, cunning, snobbishness, cruelty, deprivation, obsolescence, weakness, ignorance... When the new history forcefully opened the door to Tibet, dreams and pursuits also knocked on Yangji Dolma's young heart. The novel shapes the artistic images of Tibetan officials, nobles, commoners, serfs, monks and nuns from different classes, and details the life customs of the Tibetan people. It is known as Tibet's "Dream of Red Mansions".

This book tells the story of more than 200,000 educated youths who returned to the city, and their difficult search after being lost again: the protagonist Yao Yuhui's father is the current mayor, and her mother is the director of the Tourism Bureau. She has a comfortable home but is not greedy for comfort. She has to find a job based on her own ability; Xu Shufang, who replaced her fiancé Wang Zhisong and returned to the city due to illness, was kicked out of the house by her mother after her father died. Just when he was about to marry Guo Liqiang, who had helped him in difficulties, Wang Zhisong brought a wreath to "congratulate"; Liu Dawen, the golden-voiced man who was famous in the army at that time, could only make a living by selling cigarettes... This book truly and touchingly shows the pain and joy, pursuit and ideal of the educated youth in Beidahuang at that time, and passionately praises their beautiful hearts and sentiments in adversity.

This book unfolds a grand historical picture of the movement of educated youths to the mountains and countryside in the 1960s and 1970s in the two lands of northern Shaanxi and Beidahuang. It tells the stories of educated youths from Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin and other places who went to the countryside to join the team and went to the Production and Construction Corps to reclaim wasteland. It shaped the story of Zhao Tianliang, Zhao Shuguang, Qi Yong, The vivid images of a large number of intellectual youths such as Fu Zheng, Sun Jingwen, Sun Manling, Feng Xiaolan, Zhou Ping, Wu Min, and Li Junting, as well as their fathers and company leaders, describe the love, friendship, and family affection of a generation, and sincerely express the profound thinking of a generation of young people on the current situation of China and the destiny of the country at that time.

"Educated Youth" unfolds a grand historical picture of the movement of educated youths to the mountains and countryside in the 1960s and 1970s in the two lands of northern Shaanxi and Beidahuang. It tells the story of educated youths from Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin and other places who went to the countryside to join the team and work for the Production and Construction Corps to reclaim wasteland. It shaped the lives of Zhao Tianliang, Zhao Shuguang, and Qi Yong. , Fu Zheng, Sun Jingwen, Sun Manling, Feng Xiaolan, Zhou Ping, Wu Min, Li Junting and other vivid images of a large number of intellectual youths, as well as their parents and company leaders, describe the love, friendship, and family affection of a generation, and sincerely express the profound thinking of a generation of young people on the current situation of China and the destiny of the country at that time.

This book tells the story of more than 200,000 educated youths who returned to the city, and their difficult search after being lost again: the protagonist Yao Yuhui's father is the current mayor, and her mother is the director of the Tourism Bureau. She has a comfortable home but is not greedy for comfort. She has to find a job based on her own ability; Xu Shufang, who replaced her fiancé Wang Zhisong and returned to the city due to illness, was kicked out of the house by her mother after her father died. Just when he was about to marry Guo Liqiang, who had helped him in difficulties, Wang Zhisong brought a wreath to "congratulate"; Liu Dawen, the golden-voiced man who was famous in the army at that time, could only make a living by selling cigarettes... This book truly and touchingly shows the pain and joy, pursuit and ideal of the educated youth in Beidahuang at that time, and passionately praises their beautiful hearts and sentiments in adversity.

Fiona Meyer in "Children's Act" is a female High Court judge who has always been known for her strict wisdom, precision and rationality. But her successful career could not hide the discord in her family. Years of infertility and her husband's infidelity put her thirty-year marriage into crisis. Adam, a seventeen-year-old boy, refused blood transfusion treatment because of his religious beliefs, and his life was hanging by a thread. As time passed, both the prosecution and the defense gave their reasons. In order to make a fair and reasonable verdict, Fiona decided to visit the boy in the hospital in person. A sincere conversation touched Fiona's deep-seated emotions. In the end, her ruling will bring unexpected consequences to the two... McEwan presents readers with a moral and legal dilemma in "The Children's Act": Should we respect religious beliefs and personal will, or should we adhere to the principle of the supremacy of life? Carrying the heavy shackles of a civilized society, which side will the balance of human nature tilt to? "This is McEwan's best novel since On Chesil Beach." - The Guardian

Iris Murdoch is "the smartest woman in Britain". As a female disciple of Wittgenstein, she has deep philosophical cultivation and is the author of "Existentialism and Mysticism" and so on. "Existentialism" is the theme of her first novel "Under the Internet". Her mature writing skills and profound thinking made this debut novel an astonishing success. Since then, Alice has dominated the British literary world with her unique style and mature thinking. She has been nominated for the Booker Prize 6 times, making her the most nominated writer in the history of the award. She won the first prize with "The Sea, the Sea" in 1978. Some people call the writing style of this book "open realism." Indeed, this book has a broad atmosphere and can withstand the tossing of critics from various schools such as mysticism, existentialism, psychoanalysis, etc.; At the same time, her work shocks readers with her skillful skills and thought-provoking stories. It can be said that her works are the most perfect literary interpretation of philosophy.

The smartest woman in Britain, winner of the Booker Prize and the most nominated writer for this award, is a masterpiece of emotional and philosophical novels. "The Black Prince" is a well-received and one of the most difficult works of Murdoch in his later period. The protagonist, Bradley, a writer in his late sixties, wants to escape the city and live in the countryside. Just before departure, his ex-wife's brother arrives unexpectedly. From this moment on, he is fatally trapped in endless nightmares: harassment by his ex-wife; insanity of his sister who was abandoned by her husband; his old friend's wife has a secret love for him; and the most hopeless thing, which is also the core of the story, is that he had an unfaithful love affair with his old friend's daughter, and eventually died unjustly in prison. In this novel, which is highly integrated with philosophy and art, the postmodernist experimental technique with the self-deconstruction of the text as its prominent feature is worth studying and pondering. While constructing his own narrative world, the author deconstructs this world through self-explanation or commentary, making up fictions while exposing them, subverting the tradition of authors hiding behind the fictional world in novel creation.

This is a novel that promotes excellent traditional culture and revolutionary culture and has distinctive regional cultural characteristics. After Yang Tianci, a member of the Communist Party and platoon leader of the Eighth Route Army, was injured and returned to his hometown of Yangbianyuan, Shaanxi Province, he persuaded his father Yang Hantang, a landlord and a traditional Chinese medicine doctor, to take the initiative to reduce rent and interest. He led the villagers to connect the unique residential houses-dikengyuan with tunnels into an underground front to fight against the Japanese and puppets. While cooperating with the Eighth Route Army to eliminate the most ferocious enemies, Yang Tianci assisted Yang Hantang in treating not only the Eighth Route Army, but also the national army and captured Japanese officers and soldiers. Inspired by their influence, the officers of the National Army who were once resolutely anti-communist secretly joined the Communist Party. Some Japanese officers and soldiers developed war-weary and anti-war sentiments and secretly informed the Eighth Route Army. Yangbianyuan, which was ostensibly occupied by the Japanese army, became our secret base and made a significant contribution to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

"Three Stories" is the last complete fictional work published by Gustave Flaubert during his lifetime. It was created over a period of 30 years and is recognized as the author's mature work. It is the concentrated expression of Flaubert's novel art. Turgenev did not wait for the French original to be completed as a book before he translated it into Russian. Falcaut said: "Those who know Flaubert, find him here; those who don't know him, know him here." Among them, "The Legend of St. Julian's Mercy" is based on a medieval story. The author eliminates the bad and retains the essence, bringing the ethereal legend back to reality; "A Simple Heart" turns decay into magic, turning non-legendary material into a moving short story; "Herodias" makes history come alive again, concentrating conflicts into one day, from morning to night, recalling the rigorous structure of drama. These three short stories echo the author's "The Temptation of Saint Anton", "Madame Bovary" and "Salangbao" respectively.

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"100: One Hundred Little Novels" is a work published by Italian writer Giorgio Manganelli in 1979. It won the Viareggio Prize, one of Italy's most important literary awards. This work contains one hundred short stories, each of which is only a few hundred words long, but every sentence in it is unique, full of games of language and thought, depicting scenes like a witches' night party, and constructing surreal and absurd worlds. Icaro Calvino once commented on Giorgio Manganelli: "There is an incomparable writer in Italian literature. His every word is clearly identifiable. He invented endless and irresistible games of language and thought..." This is exactly what this "Decameron"-style novel is. Which genre do they belong to? Miniature psychodrama, prose poem, absurd story, sudden epiphany, malicious sophistry, satirical allegorical poem, delusional spectacle, existential irony, or wonderful and shocking fallacy? These one hundred short stories are provocative, arrogant, sinister, and sometimes very funny from beginning to end. Among them are prosaic lovers, martyrs, killers, thieves, madmen, emperors, bandits, sleepers, architects, hunters, prisoners, writers, fantasies, ghosts, time and space, dragons, doppelgangers, knights, fairies, angels, animal incarnations and visions that only appear in dreams. Each piece of work has the structure of a Möbius strip. As one critic pointed out, "time flows back and forth in a circular motion," like an ouroboros.

"Holy Lily" is hailed as the most important masterpiece in the late period of Updike's creative career. Through the description of four generations of the Wilmot family, the work provides a 360-degree panoramic record, report and analysis of the religious, spiritual and moral outlook of the United States for an entire century. In particular, it vividly shows the rise and fall of religion and film, the two pillars of American spirituality. It can be called a history of the decline of American spirituality and morality in the twentieth century.

"Dove Feather" is a representative work of Updike's early short stories. There are 19 short stories in total, all written by the author around the age of 30. Many of the themes are the twists and turns of his adolescent experience, and are filled with a unique charm of youthfulness. "Dove Feather" is a collection of short stories by the author, which reflects that the author is not only a master of novels, but also a master of short stories. "Dove Feather" was written in 1962 and is the representative work of the author's early short stories. The work mainly describes how the protagonist often feels uneasy and depressed about being unable to control his own destiny in today's highly technologically advanced American society. It depicts the spiritual emptiness of the American middle class and truly and meticulously reflects their hesitation and confusion after the collapse of their old spiritual pillars.

"Catman" is an important work that established Updike's reputation as a master. For this work, he won the National Book Award for the first time. It is also one of the most artistic masterpieces among all his works. The story of "Catman" is not complicated. It tells the story of a father's love for his son. But this is a work of great emotional strength. This father's love is written in the novel in a profound and tragic way. This book almost reminds us to pay attention to two points: one is the extraordinary theme contained in the weird image of the horseman, and the other is the perfect combination of theme and expression. It interweaves myth and reality, has both symbolic meaning and beauty, and the sharpness and cruelty of reality. It tells a story of father and son, love and sacrifice beautifully, profoundly and touchingly in the way of surrealism and cubism painting. An out-and-out "masterpiece".

"Jean-Christophe" is Romain Rolland's masterpiece and the most famous "long river novel" in the 20th century. This masterpiece reflects a series of contradictions and conflicts in real society through the protagonist's life experience, and promotes humanitarianism and heroism. The novel describes the protagonist's life of struggle, from the awakening of his musical talent as a child, to his contempt and resistance to the powerful in his youth, to his career pursuit and success as an adult, and finally to the lofty state of spiritual tranquility. Belgium's most famous printmaker, Frances Maiselere (who, like Kollwitz and Mayfield in Germany, was one of the most highly regarded printmakers in China's emerging woodcut movement advocated and launched by Lu Xun) created nearly 400 woodcut illustrations specifically for the novel. The perfect combination of text and illustrations has become a rare literary and artistic treasure throughout the twentieth century.

The Marguerite Duras e-book series set (14 books in total) includes the following selected works: "Lovers & Black Hair, Blue Eyes", "Material Life", "Summer Rain", "Jan Andrea Steiner", "The Tree in the Sky" "Days", "The English Mistress", "Abarn, Sabana, David", "Hiroshima Mon Amour", "Writing", "Pain", "Half-past Ten on a Summer Night", "The Square", "The Rape of Laur", "The Afternoon of Monsieur Andesma".

There are five Mickey Albom books in the set: "Rebirth in a Day", "Meet Tuesday", "Five People You Meet in Heaven", "Have a Little Faith", and "Keeper of Time".

As an ancient building that existed as early as the Republic of China, the Doctoral Building of H University is a dormitory with a harsh environment, dim lighting, and a long history. It is also an ivory tower where strange people come out in large numbers, where strangers come up one after another, and where all rivers are embraced. In the era of changing from old to new, the fates of everyone in the doctor's building are intertwined, forming a series of ridiculous and bizarre stories that are both ridiculous and ridiculous. How should the intelligent group at the top of the ivory tower make choices when faced with unexpected stormy waves? For some people, it may be better to forget each other than to help each other; sometimes, success is not the best choice; and some things, even if there are thousands of people, I will pass them by. A rare masterpiece that revolves around responsibility, dreams and growth. Underneath the laughter is a calm reflection on the current situation of society.

As an ancient building that existed as early as the Republic of China, the Doctoral Building of H University is a dormitory with a harsh environment, dim lighting, and a long history. It is also an ivory tower where strange people come out in large numbers, where strangers come up one after another, and where all rivers are embraced. In the era of changing from old to new, the fates of everyone in the doctor's building are intertwined, forming a series of ridiculous and bizarre stories that are both ridiculous and ridiculous. How should the intelligent group at the top of the ivory tower make choices when faced with unexpected stormy waves? For some people, it may be better to forget each other than to help each other; sometimes, success is not the best choice; and some things, even if there are thousands of people, I will pass them by. A rare masterpiece that revolves around responsibility, dreams and growth. Underneath the laughter is a calm reflection on the current situation of society.

Everything was submerged except for half of the church bell tower. Under the water is her former hometown... Trina, a country girl who graduated from a normal school, is a dreamer who is willing to stay in her hometown because of love. However, her ordinary dreams - to teach in her mother tongue, to raise her husband and children, and to live in her hometown forever - were shattered one by one in the process of experiencing changes in the ownership of her hometown, the fascist war and modernization... The author uses a calm writing style to tell the story of a woman's ordinary and extraordinary life. There is no betrayal, no right or wrong, just the ruthless giant wheel of the times. Nowadays, everything in my hometown rests under the waveless water. Only words can retain those things that are destined to be left behind.

In 1982 in northwest London, two mixed-race little girls met in a community dance studio and quickly became friends. Both dream of becoming dancers, but only Tracy has the talent; the other has all kinds of weird ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, or what makes a person truly free. As they enter adolescence, their passionate friendship quickly cools and they take different paths. Tracy became a supporting actress in the musical, but soon ruined her life in other ways; her friend, the protagonist of the novel, left the neighborhood and accidentally became the assistant of Amy, their childhood idol, and was involuntarily dragged forward by that glorious world. When Amy decides to go to Africa to carry out her charity work, the protagonist's life changes drastically. After experiencing deception, betrayal, the death of her mother and disappointment in the entertainment industry, she eventually returned to the neighborhood of her birth and her childhood friends.

All the pain in our lives comes from self-deception. "Britain, a small town in the south that has been cold and damp all year round. Photographer Nell once devotedly researched the history of the town's suicide by jumping into the river. The river seemed to have a fatal temptation, and one after another people jumped into the river on a stormy night as if they were seduced. Nell began to write this book to tell the mysterious story of the town, but before the story was finished, she sank to the bottom of the water as fate would have it. A few months ago, she drowned in the river The girl had just read the first draft of her new book. The police launched an investigation, and people related to the case in the town described what they saw and knew. Everyone has their own perspective, and everyone has a solid statement. Sometimes, people tell the truth not based on facts and conscience. Until one day, the shocking words appeared in the fatal manuscript: This river is a place to deal with troublesome girls.

In the summer of 1933, when thousands of German people still regarded Hitler as their idol and lived "uplifting" lives, the Rosa family in southern Germany had to face days that were getting worse day by day. Originally, my father used a large wagon to take his family from one village to another, doing business everywhere. As the eldest son, Ernst liked this kind of free life very much. However, due to the obviously unfair management policies implemented by the Nazi Party towards the Gypsies, the father's business suffered a heavy blow. Coupled with the birth of the fourth child, the family's situation became worse, and the forced intervention of the city government finally led to the family being forced to separate. At that time, Ernst Rosa was only three years old. After that, his mother died, his father was sent to a concentration camp, and Ernst was sent to an orphanage, where everyone called him a "descendant of Gypsies."

This is a novel that explores the world from the perspective of a psychiatrist. Yang Boqi, a doctor of psychology who returned from overseas, worked as a psychiatrist in Beijing after returning to China in order to understand people's secrets from the "inside". The boss Jin Zhaoshan who got rich overnight, the clumsy civil servant Wang Yi, the white-collar Hu Dale who was troubled by his inability to tell dirty jokes, and the "Einstein + Lin Huiyin" strange woman Ran Ran who finally chose to become a monk... "Patients" As soon as they appeared on the scene, they and Yang Boqi made repeated advances in different fields - sex, marriage, stock market, psychological analysis, religion, etc. - But could not overcome them. In the floating city, can they find an exit from life...

The entire novel is about the novelist Henry James in the last few years of his life. He is very famous and laid the foundation of psychological realism in the history of world literature. In his later years, he refused to be lonely and tried drama writing. As a result, on the night of the performance of his play, he was humiliated by the public and he never recovered. The writing form of "Author, Author" is very novel. If it is a novel, it contains very detailed historical facts, but it is completely different from a biography in the general sense. The author consciously arranges the facts according to artistic needs.

The masterpiece of the famous writer Isherwood, the original work that became a Hollywood and Broadway classic, is a sketch of the chaos when Berlin fell before World War II. "Farewell, Berlin" is the most famous Berlin story written by the famous writer Christopher Isherwood. It is based on the bohemian decadent life of the author's youth. It depicts the chaotic chaos of Berlin before and after the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, and people's last carnival when the doomsday comes. The six short stories focus on various characters: the landlady Mrs. Schroeder and her tenant; two men with gay feelings; a struggling Norwegian family; a wealthy Jewish shopkeeper; the innocent yet sophisticated British gold digger Sally... Through the fate of characters of different parties, nationalities, and classes, the author accurately depicts a society heading into decline, allowing people to have a glimpse of the storm gathering over Berlin before and after the Nazis came to power, as well as the glimmer of humanity hidden within. "Farewell to Berlin" was adapted into the world-famous Broadway classic "Cabaret" (Cabaret). The film of the same name directed by Bob Fosse won eight Oscars in 1973, including Best Director and Best Actress. "Time" magazine and the U. S. National Library named "Farewell to Berlin" among the "Top 100 English Novels of the 20th Century."

"Beauty" revolves around two families who also come from academia but uphold diametrically opposed values. The main scene is set in New England, and part of the plot takes place in London. Through a series of cultural wars and emotional entanglements on both sides of the ocean between the Belseys and the Kipps, the novel connects the fierce conceptual collisions in many aspects from family life, political stance to personal, academic and political fields. It places poor moral behavior in lofty idealism, trying to explain the meaning of love and beauty, and the various impacts that life may have on them. With the disintegration of the Belsey family, it reflects the confusion of our unstable era and goes straight to the core of the family. Facing the ruins of liberalism and the hypocrisy of right-wing conservatism, the love and beauty embodied in the friendship between the hostesses of the two families, Kiki Belsey and Karin Kipps, become another important theme of the novel. Although their husbands competed with each other in academic fields, their friendship transcended differences in class, politics, and religious views and became "the only bond." The novel's bold and noisy plot foreshadowing, its perfectly set-up witty or acerbic dialogue, and its penetrating portrayal of the absurd current situation in academia all reflect Zadie Smith's masterful control of grand, Forster-esque themes: friendship, marriage, social conflict, and the expression of artistic debate. In a way, this is a heroic attempt to give dignity and meaning to modern life through the medium of Bloomsbury writing.

"The Temptation of Saint-Antoine" is the masterpiece of the great French writer Flaubert (1821-1880). The first draft was in 1849, the second draft in 1856, the third draft in 1872, and the full text was officially published in 1874. It spanned 25 years, during which Flaubert completed three novels, "Madame Bovary", "Salangbao" and "Emotional Education". The writing of this book almost ran through the writer's entire creative career. The novel is based on the legend of the saint, that is, the story of the Egyptian monk Anton (about 251–356) who resisted various temptations in the desert. There are many works based on this in Western art. In 1845, Flaubert's sister Caroline traveled to Italy as a newlywed, and Flaubert accompanied him. At the Balbi Palace in Genoa, he saw the oil painting "The Temptation of Saint Anton" said to be by the Dutch painter Bruegel the Elder, and gained inspiration for writing. Byron's poetic drama "Cain" and Goethe's poetic drama "Faust" he had read when he was young also gave him a lot of inspiration. The novel is divided into seven chapters and describes in detail Anton's spiritual vision one night. The devil, the Queen of Sheba, and Anton's own disciples placed countless huge temptations in front of him: wealth, power, pleasure, and even more tempting ones: gods, rituals, scriptures, oracles... In the name of science, the devil created obstacles and hid the secrets of the universe. From sunset to dawn, dreams continue. In the end, Anton emerges from the confusion and moves towards new life. The novel is written in the form of prose poetry (or poetic drama), reflecting the rebellion against religious delusions and the rejection of the materialistic society. It is a work in which the writer devoted himself to "mania".

"Golden Shanghai" is set in the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce at the beginning of the 20th century, with the Ningbo businessmen who dominated Shanghai as the protagonist, and the financial industry (banks, banks, stock markets) as the main battlefield. It slowly unfolds an era painting with the main lines of wealth, life, family and country, love and hatred, justice and grievances. In 1905, four promising young men, Wu Tingju, Fu Shunan, Chen Jiong, and Zhang Hu, came to Shanghai with different dreams. They chose different paths in life due to different circumstances, ambitions, and realms. Frustrated scholar Wu Jingju was infiltrated by the Confucian ideal of economic development and benefiting the people. After his dream of taking the imperial examination, he participated in the industrial rescue. He started as an apprentice in Guhang and became a financial giant who controlled Shanghai's banking industry. He wanted to make the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce a pure business organization with dignity and benefit to the people. Fu Shun'an abandoned his dignity in order to get rid of his origins in Lingchang. The evil-minded Zhang Hu worships the Chinese inspector from the concession as his master, shows off his fists in Shanghai, opens up a world, and wants to establish a gangster system that can do whatever he wants; Chen Jiong is committed to the revolutionary feat of overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty, regaining Shanghai, and building a new world dominated by revolutionaries... As time goes by, ten years later, have their dreams come true? Have their goals been achieved?

"Eugene Onegin" is Pushkin's masterpiece. This poetic novel broadly reflects the social life of Russia in the 1820s, truly expresses the anguish, exploration and awakening of Russian youth of that era, and raises many important social issues. Therefore, Belinsky called it "an encyclopedia of Russian life and the most popular work." The central protagonist of the work is the aristocratic young man Onegin. Onegin had a luxurious life similar to that of ordinary aristocratic youths, but the atmosphere of the times and progressive Enlightenment ideas, Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" and Rousseau's "Social Contract", and Byron's poems praising freedom and individual liberation all had an impact on him, causing his attitude towards reality to change. He began to be tired of the empty and boring life in the upper class, and came to the countryside with a desire for a new life, and tried to engage in agricultural reform. However, the flashy aristocratic education did not give him any practical ability to work, and the bad habits of leisure and indolence left a deep mark on him. Coupled with the criticism and opposition from the surrounding landowners, Onegin was still in a state of idleness, depression and hesitation in the end, and contracted the typical disease of the times-melancholy.

700,000 words are dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Republic, and reflect the heroism and confusion, suffering and glory of the Central Plains in the past thirty years. Stove gate, hall gate, courtyard gate, family affairs, rural affairs, state affairs... The Great Leap Forward, big pot rice, great famine, great drought, great floods... A song dedicated to his hometown by Han Chuanzi, the author of the best-selling book "Guiguzi's Bureau". The story begins when the landowner of the Zhang family was shot during the land reform, and the whole family went crazy. The villagers were allotted fields, but before they could be happy, a wave of cooperatization was launched across the country, and they began to eat "big pot rice". The big canteen followed the Great Leap Forward, and the villagers were forced to smash pots and ladles to join the large-scale steel smelting. They neglected farming, and grain production was reduced. However, high-yield winds blew up, and grain production was falsely reported. The famine followed like a shadow, and the small villages were starved to death. Lin, a married man, starved to death on his bed, and the bald men of thousands of families ran to the graves to dig up corpses to eat...; The famine was not far away, and the Cultural Revolution struck. The Dragon Temple was smashed and the graves were leveled.

"White River Bridge" is a full-length anti-Japanese novel. It mainly tells the emotional entanglements between Mao Cao, Guo Daqiang, Xue Hanchen, a young man from Daxue Village, and the Japanese Takahashi brother and sister, as well as their different life paths. They were all young and full of youth, and they should have enjoyed the beautiful emotions belonging to this age. However, the ending was that the Baihe Bridge designed by Xue Hanchen was bombed, and Hanchen and Sachiko were also swallowed up by the huge smoke and dust. The war destroyed everything, not only human bodies, but also the originally pure souls.

This manuscript is a research monograph on Bi Feiyu's novel "Massage". Starting from the text content, the discussion focuses on the theme, connotation and character analysis of the novel "Massage". By analyzing the characters in the novel and analyzing and exploring the moral categories, it is proposed that ""Massage" has filled in a rich and colorful stroke for the bottom narrative of the new century." Interpreting and analyzing the works of "Massage" and conducting a comprehensive and holistic study of Bi Feiyu's creations have great practical significance. (Bi Feiyu, a famous writer, professor at Nanjing University, and vice chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Writers Association. Main achievements: Lu Xun Literature Award Short Story Award, Main Achievements Lu Xun Literature Award Short Story Award, the 8th Mao Dun Literature Award, People's Literature Award, etc. "That Boy Is Me", "Tsing Yi", "Plain", "Furious Fingers", "Massage")

Through the unique and charming narration of host Wang Gang and modern television technology, the real events in the world are fully presented to the audience. Life itself is richer and more complex than artistic creation. "Stories told by Wang Gang" will present the diversity of life itself, allowing the audience to watch a good story and experience a wonderful life journey.

At the end of his life, he completed this novel about love and grief (the novel was edited by Haruf's widow). Life is often more complicated than it seems to us, even if it seems as calm as water, for those who thrive in the world, love frankly, and resist gently. I'm 70 years old, alive, and in love with someone. This beautiful story tells the story of the journey from friendship to love. No matter how old people are, they still have room to learn and grow. The author Kent Harrouff is like a kind old grandfather watching every move of the characters in his novel, just observing from a distance and without judgment. The candid words are clear, transparent, concise and powerful, which is the life that Haruf leaves for readers to savor.

A novel that covers thousands of Buddhist principles in the world, highly recommended by Meng Fei, Chen Kun, and Ma Boyong. Write down Xuanzang's life, a lonely traveler's journey of seeking truth! Shown in the journey of a lonely traveler like Xuanzang in pursuit of truth, he achieved the greatest adventure in the history of human hiking. In the second year of Zhenguan of the Tang Dynasty (AD 628), Xuanzang and his westbound team walked on the Silk Road. Deserts, poisonous springs, rapids, and swamps, the Western Region welcomes Buddhists from the east with its wildness and variety. During the long journey westward, Xuanzang faced the dangers of human nature for the first time. The scum of business travelers on the Silk Road and the bandits and horse thieves in the desert successively showed their ferocious faces to him. In times of crisis, the Buddha's guidance led him into the dreamy kingdom of the Jin family. On the top of the vast mountains, the westbound team suffered unprecedented heavy losses. Extreme cold, strange diseases, horrific legends, collapse and death tested everyone. Xuanzang didn't know what else was waiting for him ahead. 19 Years + 56 countries + 110 cities + 1,335 volumes of scriptures + 50,000 miles = Xuanzang's westward journey. The emerging Tang Dynasty, Turks on horseback, mysterious Central Asia, India where various ideas collide...

1947, Zhixing Village, Cornwall, England, a village by the sea. Drake, a young soldier with war wounds, in order to fulfill the last wish of his deceased comrade, brought a letter to his comrade's father. On the way, he came to this village and met a wonderful lady who had seen all the changes in the world. This is a fateful encounter. This is an inspiring story, full of love, warmth and hope, but also accompanied by regret, fear and pain. It teaches us to face the sadness in life, and how to continue to walk bravely even if our lover leaves.

There is a sea view hotel at No. 31 Hanging West Road, run by Maeve, an old woman who is over seventy years old. There is something unusual about this hotel, both the staff and the guests are mostly disabled people. Maeve has guarded the Seaview Inn for more than half a century. However, the peaceful days were finally broken by the visit of Vincent, who was familiar with Maeve's past. The story begins to travel back and forth in Maeve's memory. Maeve has a twin sister named Edie. Edie is innocent, kind, and has a heavenly singing voice, but she has always been clumsy and noisy because she has Down syndrome. Maeve's parents were determined not to entrust Edie to the care of a mental hospital. They ignored the narrow prejudices and accusations of the world and provided equal attention to the two sisters as much as possible. However, after her mother passed away, her helpless father chose to send Edie to a convent, despite Maeve's objections, and Maeve's fate began to change dramatically...

Letty, Xiaowei and Defen are the fourteenth generation of the Art family. The history of the Art family is glorious enough - there was a Nobel Prize winner and Germany's first female doctor of chemistry. Their family once lived next to Einstein and had a close relationship with Marie Curie... But now the three Art sisters live in an old apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Several generations of the Art family have lived in this apartment, but the strange thing is that each generation cannot die happily. The three of them joked that they were "three-no women" with no partners, no children, and no pets. They were convinced that their family was plagued by bad luck, and they always felt that the meaning of their lives was meaningless, so they made an astonishing decision at the turn of the millennium...

At the age of 18, for most girls, it is just the difference between ice cream and fresh meat. It is just a choice between what to wear today and where to play tomorrow. But for the American girl Charlie, at the age of 18, she has to face the fate of heaven or hell... The girl Charlie is only 18 years old this year, but she feels that her life is full of holes: her father has passed away, her mother is indifferent, and her good friend Alice has also left her... The depression of youth has made 18-year-old Charlie confused and confused. She is facing incredible opportunities in her good times... Each of us has experienced it when we were young. Negativity from others and self-doubt will send us to a completely different life track. However, we will eventually understand that the so-called "good" and "bad", the so-called "right" and "wrong" are just two sides of the coin, and the right choice you can make is to throw it away! Fragile Charlie, shy Charlie, bartender Charlie, painter Charlie... There is always a difficult time in each of our lives. I hope you will never compromise!