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"One Shilling Candle" There is a woman's corpse lying on the beach in the early morning. The deceased's hair was dyed and her toenails were painted with scarlet nail polish. She looked different from ordinary people. The coast patrol said it was just an accident due to accidental swimming. They found a button tangled in her hair and identified her as Christine Clay, the most popular star in the UK. Now, almost everyone in the world was inseparable from her death. Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard peeled off clues from the deceased's complex friendship and the clues at the corpse scene. After repeated struggles and misunderstandings, he gradually uncovered the truth of the case with courage, wisdom, sympathy and opportunity.

"The Faxing Chase Incident" A 16-year-old school girl who has been missing for nearly a month alleged that she was abducted by the owners of the Franchise mansion, a mother and daughter, and forced her to work as a maid, and was subsequently placed under house arrest in Franchise. But when the police brought the girl to Franchise for identification, the mother and daughter claimed that they neither knew nor had seen the girl, but she could accurately describe the layout of the room, the furnishings, and even the daily necessities of the mother and daughter. A lie runs throughout the story, but in the end it makes us feel the power of "public opinion killing".

"Miss Ping's Idea" Miss Lucy Ping, who studies psychology, established a deep friendship with a group of students with different personalities during her short stay in a girls' school. The sudden "accidental" death of a girl broke the tranquility of the entire school, and Miss Ping's inadvertent discovery also made her fall into a rational and emotional decision: What should I do? Can I really make the so-called "right" decision? ... There was a long queue in front of the Dayton Theater. A man who was queuing up to buy tickets to watch the musical was found dead in the queue with a shiny and evil silver dagger stuck in his back. What is strange is that the people in front and behind the deceased did not know when the deceased was killed, and there was nothing on the deceased that could identify him.

The last two collections of short stories in the Sherlock Holmes series. In these stories, although Sherlock Holmes has been in a semi-retired state, he still has an everlasting sword and repeatedly comes out to solve difficult cases; and the author Conan Doyle's creative writing style and narrative perspective have become increasingly sophisticated and changeable, and have reached the level of perfection. The chapters "The Red Circle" and "The Lion's Mane" in this collection have won high praise from readers and should not be missed.

"A Handsome Face" Leslie Seale, who had a handsome face, suddenly appeared in the quiet British town of Shaka St. Mary, which brought an unusual feeling to the people living here and changed their lives more or less; Seale's sudden disappearance caused an uproar. Even the experienced Detective Grant was in a fog and could not find any clues to the case...

"The Queue" There is a long queue at the Woffington Theater in London. A man who was queuing up to buy tickets to watch the musical was found dead in the queue with a shiny and evil silver dagger stuck in his back. What is strange is that the people in front and behind the deceased did not know when the deceased was killed, and there was nothing on the deceased that could identify him. "Elegant Detective" Grant personally took action to investigate the case, and the suspects were easily captured. When he was done, the detective's sixth sense gave him new confusion about the case...

Maugham changed the prejudice against women in his previous works and recalled the life of a beautiful woman as an admirer, embellished with many anecdotes from the literary and artistic circles. He draws materials from reality, blends fiction with fact, and uses the narrator Ashenden to narrate his early interactions with the famous writer Driffield and his ex-wife Rosie. This past event is the biographical subject that another popular novelist Keir wants to explore, and the story begins. Deep in Ashenden's memory, we find that the charming Rosie, although romantic and merciless by nature, is still kind, frank and lovely...

From a personal perspective, science writer Keigo Higashino expresses many views on life, the future and creation in this book. What impact have advances in telephones, cameras, and transportation had on speculative fiction? How did Keigo Higashino change his creative methods with the development of the times? What interesting behind-the-scenes stories are there in his novels? Why is mathematics the uncrowned king among disciplines? Why is blood type unreliable? What kind of prediction did he make about the Beijing Olympics?

"Selected Short Stories of Somerset Maugham" has a total of twenty-three short stories, which take us to the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Mexico, and also lead us to appreciate the customs of the Pacific island countries. The secular men and women in Maugham's works play unforgettable roles in scenes of harsh human dramas. The weaknesses of human nature are always under precise perspective, and interpersonal relationships are coldly analyzed again and again. In various bizarre scenes, lost humanity triggered a series of tragedies.

"Animal Farm" is one of Orwell's outstanding works. It is a dystopian political allegory that penetrates the heart. A group of animals on the farm successfully carried out a "revolution", driving their exploitative human masters out of the farm and establishing an equal animal society. However, the animal leaders, those smart pigs, usurped the fruits of the revolution and became more dictatorial and totalitarian rulers than their human counterparts.

Short stories play an important role in Maugham's creation. Burgess once commented that he wrote "the best short stories in English literature." His novels such as "The Shackles of Humanity", "The Knife's Edge" and "The Moon and Sixpence" made Maugham famous around the world, while his short stories won him more readers and became a global phenomenon with his exquisite skills in weaving stories and his keen insight into human nature and social life. In 1951, Maugham published a four-volume collection of short stories, including a total of 91 stories. He personally determined the titles and order, and wrote a preface for each volume. In 1963, Penguin Press launched a new edition based on this, and it has since been recognized as the standard edition and has been reprinted many times. The Utopia edition of "The Complete Works of Somerset Maugham's Short Stories" (all four volumes) is a translation from the 2002 Penguin edition. The young translator Chen Yikan took the lead in the solo translation. It took six years to reproduce the complete picture of Maugham's short stories in a wonderful translation for the first time. This book is the fourth and final volume.

In a battle, his comrades sacrificed their lives to rescue Larry, a young American pilot. Larry began to think about the meaning of life. Since there is truth, goodness and beauty in the world, why are there still wars and misfortunes? He felt extremely confused and bewildered about this. After the war, Larry returned to his hometown. There was a craze in the United States to create a "magnificent and prosperous era," but he found it difficult to stay a part of it. In order to get answers to the lingering doubts in his heart, he gave up the opportunity to study and find a job, left his fiancée behind and came to Paris, embarking on a long journey of exploring the meaning of life wholeheartedly. Finally, I found a spiritual way out in Indian spiritual philosophy: "a peaceful life with compassion, calmness and selflessness, gratitude and selflessness, and asceticism and self-denial." He returned to China and became a taxi driver, living in seclusion in the city as the saying goes.

A young and promising engineer suddenly died in the bathroom at home. The conflict of suspicion points to the sexy and romantic wife Xiaoman and her lover, the handsome factory doctor Xu Jian... They are a group of people whose genes have been messed up by the hand of God, and their lives have been deformed as a result. All struggles and self-rescue are in vain, and they can only face their fate helplessly. The transformational work of the famous science fiction writer Wang Jinkang, through an extramarital affair of Xu Jian, a factory doctor who has a strange murder case in a special car factory, reveals the secret living conditions of a special group that is less concerned by the public, and points directly to the essence of human nature.

Uncovering those fever nightmares, "At the End of the World" tells the story of a Portuguese military doctor who suffers from memories of the war. The young narrator is thrown into the battlefield of Angola, Africa without warning, and is forced to engage in a crazy ghost battle. He could never forget the high degree of loneliness and isolation on the foreign battlefield, the terror and bloodshed in the smoke. After spending twenty-seven months in purgatory at the end of the world filled with red sand and dust, he returned to Lisbon, only to find that his homeland and friends had become so strange. He could only court unknown women in bars night after night, recounting his painful and cruel war experiences and his inability to resolve psychological trauma. In this autobiographical masterpiece, Antunes recreates that special historical period for readers through poetic writing, and deeply reflects on the heroic narrative of overseas colonization throughout Portuguese history.

A unique historical mystery novel that doesn't even look like a mystery novel. The so-called case in the novel is a well-known story in British history: Richard III murdered two young princes imprisoned in the Tower of London in order to seize the throne. The suspect's "crime" is outrageous and even more thought-provoking. But Inspector Grant, sitting on the hospital bed, relied on his careful reasoning to overturn the four-hundred-year-old historical conclusion in one fell swoop, and told us: the truth of the matter may not be what you hear or see!

In "Memoirs", Sherlock Holmes fell off a cliff and died during a fight with criminals. Dr. Watson ended the story of "The Final Case". The masterpiece of early Sherlock Holmes detective stories, especially "The Silver Horse", "The Man in Yellow Face", and "Naval Agreement" are the most popular.

Readers' fanatical enthusiasm makes them unable to put down the Sherlock Holmes detective stories. Ten years after he stopped writing, Conan Doyle had to bring the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes back to life. He returned to the world through the case of "The Empty House" and continued his magical detective journeys one after another. The twelve short stories in "The Return" are the collaboration between Holmes and Watson once again after their return from the disaster. They not only greatly satisfy the wishes of detective novel fans, but the creation process itself is enough to constitute an indelible story in the history of world literature.

In a remote and desolate swamp area in the English countryside, there is a fateful legend between an ancient family and a supernatural hound. The mysterious death of the heir of this family seems to indicate that the legendary tragedy is becoming a reality. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is the most glorious and fascinating masterpiece in the Sherlock Holmes collection.

"My Thoughts and Concepts: Selected Works of Einstein" is a collection of Einstein's popular writings widely circulated in the English-speaking world. It has been a long-selling book since its publication in 1954. This book was compiled and selected under the personal supervision and assistance of Einstein himself. It includes important articles from the English translations of "My World View", "Later Years Collection" and "My World View", as well as unpublished new articles, a total of 121 articles. It is a must-read for understanding and studying Einstein. This book collects the essence of Einstein's articles from his youth to his death, covering Einstein's thoughts and opinions on life, science, culture, education, war, friendship and social issues. It shows Einstein's open-minded attitude towards life, keen insight and deep concern for the destiny of mankind.

The million-dollar best-selling Roman history classic "The Story of the Romans" (revised edition, 15 volumes in total), which is worth collecting, has been fully revised in 2020 and is now on the market. In this mediocre era, everyone longs for heroes. Japanese female writer Shiono Nanao decided to leave Japan and go to Rome to find heroes. He has settled in Rome for more than 50 years. In 15 years, he wrote 15 volumes of the masterpiece "The Story of the Romans", which restores the glorious history of a small country on the Italian peninsula to become a world empire that lasted for 1,300 years, and recreates an era of heroes... Only by understanding Rome can we understand past Europe and today's world.

From a wealthy lady to a commoner, from a commoner to a slave, from a slave to a queen, start the cheating journey.

Luo Ling is a nerd who specializes in games, technology, academics, and geniuses. However, in fact, the above achievements of being a nerd and a genius are all accomplished by Luo Ling's other personality (maybe?). Just when he wanted to live out his life as a genius (Xianyu), he traveled through time. He has also become Luo Tianyi's brother. The most important question is, come on, author, please explain. Why is there such a thing as Sister Pao in this world, but it's my disciple who wants to kill her? Also, would you like to explain Doma Buri and Academy City to me? Luo Ling: What should I do if I travel through time? Urgent, waiting online. Academic personality: Don't wait, just hang out and it'll be over In fact, the full title of the book is "Traveling through time and becoming Luo Tianyi's brother, and even being surrounded by other characters made me panic, especially panic" Ahem, QQ group 828771138

National costume Li Bai?! I wore it for a tour?! That's not right, damn, the poet Li Bai

"The Stranger" is Camus' famous work, a masterpiece of existential literature, and a representative work of absurd novels. The novel tells the story of an ordinary young employee who lives numbly in aimless inertia all day long. One day he went to the beach for vacation, got involved in a conflict, and committed a murder. Because "he did not shed tears at his mother's funeral", he was sentenced to death by the court in the name of "the French people". The novel elaborates on an important proposition of existentialism: the absurdity and strangeness of human society lead to individual despair and emptiness.

"Rashomon" includes 15 novels by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, including "Rashomon", "In the Bamboo Forest", "Hell Transformation" and "The Nose". Among them, "Rashomon" uses a weather-proof layout to push people to the limit of life and death choices, thus showing the inescapability of "evil" and conveying the author's understanding of people, their helplessness and despair. Although it is short, the plot is simple, and the characters are sparse, the time, place, characters, and ending are all vividly displayed in front of the readers.

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"The Blade" is Maugham's classic philosophical work. Maugham condensed his thoughts on the world and life into this work. Riley served in the Air Force during World War I and flew high in the vast sky. He wanted "power and honor far beyond the world." The death of his comrade made him realize the helplessness and insurmountability of life. After being discharged from the army, Riley refused to go to college, get married, or find a job. He left his relatives and friends behind and traveled to Europe. Finally, he went to India, where he was inspired by a Ganesha master's ashram and realized the true meaning of life. In the end, Riley chose to disappear among all living things.

"From the Earth to the Moon" tells the story that after the American Civil War, Bobby Kane, the president of the Baltimore Cannon Club, proposed firing a cannonball to the moon in order to establish a connection between the earth and the moon. After French adventurer Michel Ardant learned of the news, he suggested building a hollow cannonball, and he was going to use this cannonball to explore the moon. Captains Bobby Kane, Michelle and Nicol overcame various difficulties and finally set off on this cannon, but they did not reach their destination... The plot of this book is thrilling and full of superhuman imagination. Verne's scientific assumptions in the book are actually very similar to the real experience of modern astronauts, which is shocking.

"Childhood" tells the story that Alyosha's father died of cholera when he was three years old, and his mother took him to live with his grandfather's house. In this family, fathers and sons, brothers, and husbands and wives often quarrel and fight over property and even over trivial matters. My grandfather was moody and had a bad temper. He beat my grandmother fiercely and beat Alyosha unconscious. My grandmother was very kind to Alyosha, telling him legends, fairy tales and folk stories, and she endured all the pressures of life without complaining. The mother was forced to remarry and died of tuberculosis a few years later. After his grandfather went bankrupt, Alyosha was forced to live in the world and began to make a living independently.

In the story "Niels Riding a Goose", 14-year-old Niels is an overly naughty boy who doesn't like to study and likes to play tricks on small animals. He annoyed the elf who arrived unexpectedly, so he was cast into a little man as big as a thumb. He also accidentally rode on the neck of a domestic goose and flew into the sky. From then on, he rode his own big white goose around Sweden and began a wonderful adventure. The novel pioneered the integration of Swedish folk tales, geographical knowledge and historical common sense into the story, combined with the author's rich imagination and concise and fresh language, and has become a classic work recognized by readers all over the world.

"Around the World in Eighty Days" is one of Jules Verne's masterpieces and a classic of world science fiction, with a lively style and a sense of humor. The novel tells the story of Mr. Fogg, an Englishman who overcame many difficulties to complete a circumnavigation of the world in eighty days because of a bet with his friends. The book not only describes in detail the various bizarre experiences of Mr. Fogg and his party on the way and the numerous difficulties and dangers they encountered, but also gradually makes the characters' personalities three-dimensional as the plot unfolds. The taciturn, witty, brave and humane Fogg, the lively and impulsive servant, etc. After the work was published, it caused a sensation and was reprinted many times.

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"Animal Farm" is one of Orwell's outstanding works. It is a dystopian political allegory that penetrates the heart. A group of animals on the farm successfully carried out a "revolution", driving their exploitative human masters out of the farm and establishing an equal animal society. However, the animal leaders, those smart pigs, usurped the fruits of the revolution and became more dictatorial and totalitarian rulers than their human counterparts.

This book is the essence of Cheever's short stories, including 61 short stories, edited and selected by Cheever himself. Here, there are a couple who came to New York to work together, got together and separated, and reunited again, a young man who worked hard for his boss but was still abandoned in the end, a girl whose rent increased and did not want to move, a parent whose daughter, who was given to a nanny, suddenly disappeared, a wife who was caught up in household chores and wanted to find an outlet in life, and a husband whose wife eloped with someone else and had uninvited guests at home late at night... These stories are written about the joy and discord of contemporary life. Cheever's pen is full of beauty and sympathy.

This is not only a work that tells the history of the world through twelve maps, but also shows the development and evolution of maps from scratch to perfection. The twelve world maps selected in the book come from different historical stages and were created by cartographers from different countries and cultures. The author reveals to us that maps, far from being objective and true records, are influenced by the ideas and motives of the time and place. By interpreting the concepts and motivations behind maps, we can gain a glimpse into the fashion and spirit of the era in which the cartographer lived. In the author's interpretation, maps, as a tool for humans to understand the world, have become the prism of the trinity of "people-image-world", reflecting the historical and spiritual processes of mankind, and depicting an unprecedented three-dimensional picture of world history.

In a small village on the border of France and Germany, a mysterious stranger was killed. Brodeck, the only college student in the village, was responsible for drafting a report to the higher-level administrative agency. In the process of investigating the incident, Brodeck, who is also an "outsider" himself, retraced the strange events that happened after the strangers arrived in the village, and discovered many secrets hidden by the villagers. He gradually uncovered the darkness and ugliness of human nature, and also awakened his own painful memories of World War II.

An alternative World War II novel, a murderous secret war, the film of the same name directed by David Lean won 7 Academy Awards at the 30th Academy Awards. On the battlefield without gunpowder smoke, civilization and barbarism, nobleness and despicability, humanity and inhumanity compete. During World War II, British officer Nicholson was ordered to lead 500 of his men to surrender to the Japanese army. In order to invade India, the Japanese army urged Allied prisoners of war to build the Burma-Thailand Railway. Nicholson and his men received the task of building the Bridge on the River Kwai on the railway line. At the same time, a task force headed by Major Heath of the British Special Forces received an order to blow up the bridge, thereby cutting off this vital traffic lifeline for the Japanese army. The dramatic conflict reached its climax when the first train loaded with troops, munitions and senior Japanese generals was about to drive onto the bridge. In the end, Colonel Nicholson fought with Hiss and others in order to save the bridge...

"Iliad" (ΙΛΙΑΣ, Ilias, Iliad, also translated as "Iliad" and "Iliad") is said to have been written by the blind poet Homer (800 BC - 600 BC). It is an important ancient Greek literary work and one of the classics of the entire West. The main content is the story of the Greek expedition to Troy. Through the description of the Trojan War, it praises the heroes who fought bravely, safeguarded collective interests, and established meritorious deeds for the collective.

"The Odyssey", also translated as "Odyssey", "Odyssey", or "Odyssey", is one of the two most important epic poems in ancient Greece (the other is "Iliad", collectively known as "Homer's Epic"). "The Odyssey" continues the storyline of "The Iliad" and is said to have been written by the blind poet Homer. This epic is the foundation work of Western literature and is the oldest existing Western literary work except "The Epic of Gilgamesh" and "The Iliad". It is generally believed that "The Odyssey" was composed in Ionia, the coastal area of ​​Anatolia, Greece, at the end of the 8th century BC.

Dorothy L. Sayers was a famous British detective novelist, dramatist, theological theorist and translator. In the history of mystery novels, Sayers is a great name: together with Agatha Christie and Josephine Tey, she is known as the "Three Heroines of Mystery"; she is also the only great writer in history to have five works selected into the prestigious list of the top 100 mystery novels in the United Kingdom and the United States. "Killing Ad" tells the story of Victor Dean, an employee of Pym Advertising Company, who accidentally fell down the stairs and died. The day before his death, Dean had just written a letter to Pym, the director of the advertising company, revealing a horrifying secret that needed to be verified, so Pym privately hired the famous detective Lord Wimsey to investigate the matter. The resourceful Lord Wimsey finally solved this very strange "suicide" after many inquiries and verifications, step by step, but the matter is far from simple as it seems, and there is a more sensational scandal brewing secretly at Pim Advertising Company...

On an ordinary day, strange things happened all over the world: a tree trimmer in Florida was blown off a high-rising work platform by an abnormally strong wind; an old country woman in Ohio was attacked by a mutated mouse without eyes; a university professor in the United Kingdom was trapped in a large pumpkin at the local agricultural and sideline products market. And all this bizarreness gradually points to "Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes" that has been circulated for three hundred years - a collection of nursery rhymes with terrifying magic. Mother Goose's magic is once again released into the real world, and it falls to Cassandra, Ezekiel and Stone to track down the long-lost spell book before the true magical power in the nursery rhyme is fully released...

In 441, the then librarian Erasmus, together with his guardian and later St. Patrick, prevented the Brotherhood of Vipers from taking the golden cauldron from a leprechaun, and also prevented the vipers from sacrificing a helpless baby. That conflict took place on Mount Cro Patrick and apparently resulted in the defeat of the Brotherhood of Vipers and the beheading of their leader, a leader named Lady Sibella. Now, years later, the Serpent Brotherhood attempts to return with their dark plans, placing Lady Sibella's bones in a golden cauldron to resurrect her. The priests and librarians at that time are no longer alive, and the fate of the world and mankind falls on the current librarians...

Can a woman survive without being a villain? The wife Nobuko Shiokawa is dignified and virtuous, and is a standard traditional woman. However, her husband Hongji Shiokawa has long been separated from her. But what the husband is looking forward to is not just a simple divorce, he even wants to squeeze out the last bit of value from his wife. So, he first defrauded his wife's natal family of a huge sum of money, and then instigated his lover to seduce others in an attempt to defraud his wife into evidence of her infidelity. Hongzhi thought he had set up a flawless scam, but he didn't expect that a more terrifying force was targeting him. And how will the wife choose to fight back after her admirer committed suicide and her family was defrauded of a huge sum of money?

Mayor Haruta disappeared mysteriously in Tokyo, and the only suspect was found dead in the sea. Under the police's meticulous investigation and reasoning, the mayor's past was mentioned bit by bit, and the doubts increased... This is a wonderful mystery story connecting the two lands of Hokkaido and Tokyo. In the fair of fame and fortune where good compromises with evil, how is black and white divided?

I kept thinking over and over again, trying every possible means to delay the step of confessing that I should have taken long ago. So this is not my story, it is her story. This is her majestic travelogue through the magical night of Kyoto. It is also a bitter record of my failure to ascend to the leading role and have to be a pebble on the roadside. Readers, please carefully consider her cuteness and my stupidity, and feel the joy of life like the taste of almond tofu. Please also support me.

In 2044, a game company called Play the Game (PTG for short) invented a main-perspective holographic game called "The World". This game directly reads the brain's thoughts through special instruments to control characters. However, because the company spent too much investment in developing this game, the board of directors decided to withdraw its investment in this game if it cannot be tested publicly within a year. Therefore, the project manager in charge of this game in the company wanted to conduct a secret internal test in advance, but the game was not successful yet, the connection device was not stable, and he could not exit the game independently. The male protagonist participated in this "secret internal beta test" because he urgently needed money to operate on his sick mother!

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The sequel to the novel "Summer Finale" based on the global hit Oscar-winning film "Call Me By Your Name"! The moving follow-up to the phenomenal best-selling book! The movie adaptation of this book is in preparation, and the original cast of Call Me by Your Name is on board, and the popularity of "Sweet Tea" Timothée Chalamet continues...

Aiwei, a genius scholar in the field of artificial intelligence, was unfortunately swallowed up by a fire. He left two AIs to his son Aiosuke - detective Xiangyi and prisoner Yixiang. Yi Xiang specializes in committing crimes, while Xiang Yi solves the truth of the case. As twin AI sisters, they continue to grow by fighting against each other. The terrorist organization that suddenly appeared has kidnapped Yi Xiang and continues to create puzzling mysteries. In order to track down the cause of death of his parents, Fu Yuxiang opened an artificial intelligence detective agency - can the detectives with deep learning successfully solve these cases...