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He was sent to a mental hospital, and the hospital was shrouded in a mysterious atmosphere, as if history was telling him something. The department he was in was very special. The people who lived in it were all selected for certain talent experiments in childhood because of their certain talents. This place was originally a "genius research institute". After the institute closed, these geniuses were left behind. These geniuses know everything: about the truth about the events in the Russian Revolution, about who the revolutionary leaders were and how their life trajectories changed, about whether God was involved in the changes in the historical trajectory, about the intricate relationships between the great figures of the past era... He tried to record everything he heard, but in the process he gradually discovered that the moment that determines the fate of everyone is about to come. "Before and Now" was originally published in New World magazine. The novel caused an uproar as soon as it was published. The editor of the magazine publicly stated that he refused to accept the author's philosophy and poetics. For this reason, the author had to change his literary position. Many of his subsequent creative activities were related to the "Flag" magazine. In fact, if you put Sharov's creations together, readers can easily see the author's creative characteristics. Historical figures and historical events often occupy an important position in writers' works, but these characters and events are usually narrated by one or a few people, and the narrator's historical materials come from so-called "diaries", "notes", and "forgotten archives". Therefore, it is obvious that the author's creative purpose is not to reproduce history, nor to subvert history, but to explain historical events and historical processes from his own perspective, and to evaluate the personal character and historical role of historical figures. The same goes for "Before and Now."

The famous Russian writer M. M. Prishvin (1873-1954) was a "poet and philosopher" who sang about nature. The nature he writes is vibrant, colorful, full of fun, and full of refreshing poetry and philosophy. His lyrical works are clear and smooth, with meaningful artistic conception, and contain a kind of musical rhythm, which makes people put it down after reading. The five anthologies collect his philosophical lyrical essays and short stories, and "A Sunny Night: Notes on the Far North of Russia and Norway" is Volume 4. "Sunny Nights: Notes on the Far North of Russia and Norway" is the result of Prishvin's second trip to the north. It marks Prishvin's shift from the path of ethnography, or as it is fashionable today - anthropology, to the camp of "silver", which illustrates the attraction and influence of the "decadents" on him.

This book tells the story of a carpenter in an ordinary town in Norway. The book takes the loft renovation project he handled as a clue and records the progress of the entire project, from bidding competition, team formation, work team collaboration, to final completion. But this book is not limited to the life of a craftsman in the general sense. In addition to the meticulous craftsmanship, tedious detail processing, and ubiquitous problems, the author continues to explore the essence of this traditional craft, and thus extends his thinking about life and self. The text in the book is plain and humorous, which can easily lead readers into the life of a Norwegian carpenter, appreciate the customs and customs of a Nordic town, and feel the unique charm of ordinary work.

Hesse's fairy tales do not begin with Once upon a Time, nor do they all feature humans or animals as protagonists. The old mountain, the stubborn wicker chair, the proud boy, the ugly dwarf, all lives, are all living in a mess of inescapable difficulties to find their own endings. This book contains 20 of Hesse's fairy tales. From the first fairy tale "Two Brothers" written when he was ten years old, to "Iris" dedicated to his beloved wife, to "King You of Zhou" derived from the war drama "The Princes of Zhou", Hesse injects thoughts on the purpose of life, criticism of war, and eternal self-exploration into his stories.

The essays collected in the book "Moscow: Kaleidoscope of Changes in Time and Space" truly and vividly reproduce the social appearance of the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s. The writer used his accurate, delicate and hearty writing style to affectionately describe the unique appearance of the capital Moscow in this specific historical period. Bulgakov was a master at capturing psychological expressions and subtle psychological changes, a trait that is evident in the early prose works included in this book. He profoundly and sharply analyzes the complex mentality of the people of the era, their pursuits, joys and worries, allowing readers to have a richer perceptual grasp of that era of divergent opinions while roaming deeply into the inner worlds of all kinds of people.

This book is a collection of works by Yoko Hiramatsu, a popular writer on the weekend edition of Japan's Mainichi Shimbun. The book is divided into four parts: Walking through the courtyard of the cat team, Shoes eating socks, The library book sank into the bathtub, and The day the bird came. A total of 72 essays are included. The content covers all aspects of life, such as flowers and plants in the courtyard, overseas travel experiences, people and scenery encountered on the walk, happy moments in childhood... The author's writing style is delicate, and he describes the subtleties of daily life from a unique perspective. The author's comfortable life attitude is integrated between the lines. The articles in the book are short in length, and the writing style is relaxed and pleasant, making it easy to read.

It includes "A Year in Provence", "Return to Provence", "All About Provence" and "Provence Forever", a total of four volumes. In Provence, time slows down and years flow shallowly, stroking the soul of every hurried life, returning to the peace of mind, and quietly feeling the freedom and joy of life. Zhu Yilong recommends the most classic works in the Provence series. Reading can make up for the places that cannot be reached by walking. After reading this set of books, I hope you can find gurgling joy at the fingertips of Peter Mayer. If you are lucky enough to visit Provence, it will stay with you for the rest of your life.

This book has 16 volumes in total. Volumes 1 to 10 are short stories and short stories. Volumes 11 and 12 are dramas. It contains all the plays created by the author, a total of 16 scripts. Volume 13 contains travel notes, essays, essays, notes, and diaries. Volumes 14, 15, and 16 are letters. Dating from 1877 to 1904, including 895 letters. This collection of essays is the most important translation work of Mr. Ru Long's life.

"Aesop's Fables" went through a complex and long writing process in ancient times. First, it was an oral creation, summarizing people's life experience and summarizing people's life wisdom. Later, oral literature gradually became written literature. Some of the stories in the book appeared long before Aesop lived. The collection was widely circulated in ancient times and influenced the creations of many subsequent generations. The purpose of fables is to vividly reflect the enlightenment and lessons from all aspects of people's lives.

Pray for the resurrection of dead things, and be fascinated by the vanished and insatiable glory! A book of paradoxes, about the fantasy of emptiness, the completeness of fragments, the presence of the dead, and the immortality of narrative. "Record of Lost Objects" records 12 things that have disappeared forever on the earth: Tuanaki, Caspian tiger, Villa Sacchietti, Sappho's love poems, Manichae, Kenau's lunarology... These lost objects span art, animals, architecture, religion, literature, and movies, running through ancient and modern times. Through the charming weaving of words and images, Yudit Sharansky uses delicate and in-depth exploration, vivid and wanton musings, and affectionate and graceful writing styles to construct a poetic feeling between reality and reality, allowing people to re-examine the gains and losses of human civilization and listen to the echoes left by "lost things".

This book is compiled by Professor Huang Jianhua, a famous educator and translator, based on Montaigne's "perceived self", Montaigne's "people's lifestyles and thoughts and feelings as he experienced it" and Montaigne's "real world at that time as he understood it". This book selects Montaigne's typical passages from far and near, and compiles them into a volume to outline the portrait and main ideas of this French prose master in the second half of the 16th century. Readers can see both the green "trees" and the lush "forest".

Improve your writing skills and read "Hunter's Notes"! Master the rich skills of writing about people, scenes and narratives! The Ministry of Education compiles the first volume of "Chinese Language" for seventh grade, designated reading! The representative work of Turgenev, a master of Russian literature and a 19th-century Russian critical realist writer. Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, and Dostoyevsky are collectively known as the "Three Giants of Russian Literature" and occupy an important position in the history of Russian literature and even the world's literary world. "Hunter's Notes" is a collection of essays that records rural life in Russia in the 1840s and 1950s. The book uses a hunter's experiences during his hunting trip as a clue. Through twenty-five stories, it shows the images of people from all walks of life in the countryside, including landlords, serfs, and doctors. The book's depiction of the relationship between farmers and landlords strongly expresses opposition to serfdom, and is known as "a book that ignites a fire" in the history of Russian literature.

Once upon a time, there was a king who couldn't stand the children being naughty and noisy all day long, so he decided to let the children "get busy" - learn knowledge. The king convened knowledgeable ministers to discuss countermeasures: One minister said: "Children must be taught to read and write first," and another minister said: "Counting and calculation are also important." Sports, music, painting... Various subjects appeared one after another. Just like that, the school was invented! How did the children react on the first day of school? Why did the scene fall into chaos in math class? Why should children have summer vacation when they go to school every day? Use a relaxed and interesting way to lead children to explore the purpose of learning, so that children can find goals on the long road to school and actively seek knowledge.

"The Essays of Montaigne" concentrates on Montaigne's rich humanistic thoughts. It consists of three volumes. It is the world's first collection of essays and is known as one of the three major philosophical prose classics in modern Europe. In the following hundreds of years, it was translated into many languages ​​and became popular around the world. It has endured for a long time. "Montaigne's Essays" selects 50 world-renowned classic essays. It is rich in content and plentiful, and profoundly reveals various confusions and problems in life. It can be called a "philosophy book of life". Montaigne constantly self-analyzes and introspects in the article, answering our questions and solving difficulties. Every line of words projects a positive and intelligent attitude towards life, and also teaches us an art of life.

"Walden Pond" records the author's strange journey of living in seclusion on the shores of Walden Pond, blending in with nature, perceiving nature and reshaping himself in pastoral life. This is a quiet, tranquil and wise book. In analyzing life and criticizing customs, the language is astonishing, the words are sparkling, the insights are unique and thought-provoking. Many pages are vivid descriptions, beautiful and detailed, like the purity and transparency of lakes, and the dense greenness of mountains and forests; there are also some pages that are thorough, insightful and enlightening. This is a fresh, healthy, and uplifting book with extremely moving descriptions of spring and dawn. Here we have the clean air provided by nature without the environmental pollution caused by industrial society. Reading it, readers will naturally feel the purity of the soul and the sublimation of the spirit.

Eriko, who went to Tokyo to pursue her dream of becoming a star after graduating from high school, is now over 30 years old and has only one travel program called "Little Trip". "Little Trip" was suddenly stopped, and Eriko's agency also faced bankruptcy. Eriko, whose future was uncertain, accidentally started a career as an "agent traveler" by chance - traveling on behalf of people who wanted to travel. Although the journey was not satisfactory, Eriko, who loved traveling and knew how to grasp all the good things, bravely embarked on a journey to realize dreams for those who had expectations for her, and also found a way "home" for herself...

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A forest of mixed trees and a one-bedroom cabin on the outskirts of Nagoya are the dreamland of the Tsubata couple. In order to fulfill his wife's pastoral dream, Shuichi, who loves sailing and sailing, anchored in this rural land, built a wooden house with his own hands, and opened a vegetable garden. From then on, he and his wife Eiko stayed away from the city, and allowed the four seasons to change during spring planting and autumn harvest. Eiko took care of Shuichi's daily life meticulously, even preparing ten kinds of side dishes for breakfast, using "rainbow ingredients" to make nutritious and delicious dishes... At the same time, she never forgot Shuichi's dream of sailing in her heart. Finally, at the age of eighty-eight, Shuichi once again returned to Tahiti, which he had missed for a long time. As soon as he set off, he began to miss Yingzi who stayed at home, and missed the vegetable garden that was now full of fruits all year round under the careful care of the two of them for decades. Every day is Koharuhiwa. The clear sky and warm sun that are not dazzling are just like your long-lasting companionship day after day.

This book is a collection of personal letters of the famous Russian poet Lermontov. These dozens of letters were sent to the author's grandmother, lover, relatives, friends, etc. From them, one can intimately feel the appearance of Lermontov in life, a real and living literary giant. In his letters, he would talk about literature, drama and art, as well as the military activities in the Caucasus in which he was about to participate... This collection of letters completely and vividly presents Lermontov's life, a short but touching life; it is a very precious material for literature lovers and researchers.

"Backpacker's Solo Confessions, a Japanese Writer Writing in Chinese" - Why do people travel? To forget reality? Or do you have to face yourself? Arai 123, ever since he took his first long-distance train at the age of 14, he has wanted to venture out and fly abroad when he had the chance. She left her hometown and went to Beijing to travel around China, enter the labyrinth of Central Europe, see Cuba and Vietnam, and even immigrate to Canada to work in Hong Kong. What did she gain after traveling in different places for ten years? A true Tokyoite, Japanese is her mother tongue, and writing in Chinese is her way of healing herself. She is called a "cultural bastard" in Hong Kong. She has published seventeen books in Taiwan. Her friends in Tokyo laugh at her for being poor. She is dumbfounded. Why can't an ideal life just mean traveling, traveling, and traveling again? Back then, the brave and fearless girl, single-handedly, like a lonely planet, headed towards the border and the hometown of exiles. Prague belonged to Kundera, Cuba belonged to Hemingway, and Hong Kong belonged to Zhang Ailing. She spent the most money on air tickets, spoke the most foreign languages, and flew across the Pacific many times... In fact, what I really want to understand is happiness and freedom. Now the family's passports have been changed one after another, the dishes cooked include dishes from all over the world, and the suitcases are covered with immigration stickers. The long-distance travel in youth has been replaced by family organization. They still push the baby stroller and travel across the ocean with their families. Everything in life can be changed, but the original intention that cannot be changed must be, where to go on the next journey?

In the age of information technology explosion, you shouldn't miss Verno Vinci! Liu Cixin has publicly recommended several times, and the well-deserved milestones in the history of science fiction literature have been included in the top ten classic space operas along with "Hyperion", "Galaxy Empire" and "Dune". Hugo Award + Locus Award + Science Fiction Chronicle Readers' Choice Award + Prometheus Award + John W. Campbell Award... Must-read complete works of science fiction master Verno Vinci's classic science fiction in life.

New books, old books, beautiful books, damaged books, correct books, found books, trial copies, first editions, public libraries, private collections, used bookstores, bookshelves... "I want to talk about in this book what I will lose if one day I leave paper books. In the description, I neither seek to be comprehensive, nor do I want to exhaust my efforts. Collect all kinds of fresh reasons to defend paper books, and would rather devote more words to the most beautiful and ordinary things related to books. Because they are so familiar, we can only realize them when they are lost. "A small book written by German writer Burkhardt Spien is a love song dedicated to books.

The author Rick Hansen is a native of Williams Lake, Canada. He has loved hiking since he was a child and is good at sports. When he was 15 years old, he suffered a high paraplegia due to a car accident. With his strong will, he actively participated in wheelchair sports for people with disabilities and won 19 international wheelchair championships, including three world championships. At the age of 28, he was inspired by Terry Fox, a famous Canadian disabled hero, and decided to travel around the world in a wheelchair for a week to raise funds for the International Cord Surgery Research Institute (ICORD). He set off from Vancouver on March 20, 1985, passing through 34 countries and covering 40,000 kilometers. He completed his global trip on May 22, 1987, raising 48 million Canadian dollars for charity. At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, he won the honor of being the last leg of the torch relay as Canada's greatest athlete. This book records in detail the author's entire process of injury, treatment, hesitation, and rise in literary style, reflecting the valuable spirit and noble qualities of disabled people's self-esteem, self-improvement, courage to realize self-worth, and pursuit of contribution to society.

The best-selling collection of essays by Akutagawa Prize winners in history, it is an alternative personal biography of Naoki Matayoshi; with Tokyo as the background, it directly addresses the lives and hearts of young people working hard in big cities. This is a love letter written to Tokyo, but it will never be looked back upon: "I hope that the world will not deceive young people and eat them as food." "100 Scenes of Tokyo" is composed of 100 short essays. Matayoshi Naoki recorded his ten years of working for his dream of being an artist from Osaka to Tokyo at the age of eighteen. During the ten years, he walked through every corner of Tokyo, and related memories and emotions were dotted in it. "One Hundred Scenes of Tokyo" has a strong personal touch with Matayoshi. The writer Matayoshi admired was Osamu Dazai, who wrote "Eight Scenes of Tokyo", so it was named "One Hundred Scenes of Tokyo". Youji's writing style is simple, sincere and quite delicate. These short essays have initially demonstrated his extraordinary talents in comedy, reading and writing, but the days before becoming famous are always cruel struggles. The experience of leaving home alone is both real and imaginary in Youji's writing. His sensitive and delicate character is undoubtedly revealed in the book. It is touching, sad, funny, and quite resonant to read.

"Ancient Greek Myths and Legends" includes three parts: "The Legend of the Gods", "The Legend of the Heroes" and "The Legend of Odysseus". The author tells the fascinating and eloquent stories of Zeus, Apollo, Athena, Prometheus, Aphrodite, Agamemnon, Odysseus, Achilles' heel, Paris's apple, the Trojan horse trick and the song of the Sirens. These ancient Greek myths and legends are treasures in the world's cultural treasure house and have played an indelible role in the development of human civilization.

This book is a collection of two popular poetry collections "Crescent Moon Collection" and "Birds Collection" by the famous Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. "New Moon Collection" is a collection of children's poems. The language is ethereal and beautiful, and the forms are scattered and the spirit is concentrated, giving people an infinite sense of beauty. "The Birds" is a collection of English aphorisms rich in philosophy. Its distinctive features are the depth of wisdom and the brevity of its length. In this collection of thoughtful prose poems, day and night, fallen leaves and flowing fireflies, freedom and betrayal are all transformed into beautiful little poems under Tagore's pen. They are full of fresh breath, like the world washed by heavy rain, clear and thought-provoking.

Celina's masterpiece, it became famous in the literary world as soon as it was released in 1932. Through the dark life journey of the protagonist for decades, it reveals that the whole world is full of darkness. It is considered to be "the most realistic and heartbreaking work written in the twentieth century." Celina's ruthless anatomy of people and themselves, his hallucinatory epic style of writing, and his language expressions that are both lyrical and vulgar, eloquent, vulgar and even cruel, form a unique and distinctive Celina style. Celina is Sarkozy's favorite writer. In 2012, the work entered the public edition. This book will be equipped with exquisite illustrations and will be made into a collector's edition.

This book starts with several foreign literary classics, analyzes the life trajectory of the protagonists in the works, and summarizes various life experiences and lessons that can be drawn from them. It explains the profound things in simple terms and is very vivid. It not only provides a good introduction to the plot outlines and artistic features of literary classics, but also helps readers learn practical ideas for thinking about life.

He is an international ambassador of Chinese culture, a member of the Royal Society of Arts, and an academician of the American Academy of Arts. He is an internationally renowned essayist, painter, poet, and calligrapher. He is highly praised by Western academic and art circles. Gombrich praised him as "talented and charming." He has a wide circle of friends, including Yang Liansheng, Xu Beihong, Liu Haisu, Mei Lanfang, Xiong Shiyi, Xiao Qian, Ye Junjian, Wu Shichang, Suzuki Dazhuo, Watson... During his travels, he likes to remain silent, putting aside politics, war and other factors to depict the scenery and humanity of foreign lands. However, a series of timeless painting notes have successfully bridged the gap between Chinese and Western cultures and become classics that will last forever. Today we reread his works published in the middle of the last century, not only to understand the cultural and historical background of a distant country, but also to enjoy the indifferent joy of walking and observing, to understand the mood of culture and life, to re-understand the world around us, and to feel the beauty of life. Since his first visit in 1953, Jiang Yi has visited San Francisco many times in the past ten years. In this avant-garde and traditional city, you can venture up the Golden Gate Bridge, visit the twin peaks surrounded by mist, which are both real and illusory, stroll through the alleys full of daffodils, and narrate the history and legends of San Francisco. What makes people linger is not only the picturesque natural scenery of San Francisco, but also the American power displayed by this city - the fusion of Puritan spirit and pioneer spirit.

"The Servant of Tempura" is a summary of Japan's "tempura god" Tetsuya Saotome's 60-year career as a tempura craftsman. It is called tempura, but it actually goes far beyond cooking. Starting from the original intention and foundation of cooking, Tetsuya Saotome pours out the life principles he has learned on the cooking table for decades. What exactly does top-notch cooking mean? What skills do you need to master to become a master? What can be called the pursuit of the ultimate craftsman spirit? It also includes a conversation between Tetsuya Saotome and the "God of Sushi" Jiro Ono. The two top "Gods of Cuisine" jointly demonstrate the shaping of the spirit of craftsmanship. "People always think that things that can be realized instantly are called dreams, but those things are actually nothing. Only accumulation every day and every night is the source of the realization of dreams." After taking off the halo of the "God of Cooking", Tetsuya Saotome talked about his insights on daily life, not only his career, but also his summary and thoughts on the way to survive.

This book was written by Kuang Kuang, the son of Huang Quanyu, an education expert in the United States, when he was 15 years old. Many people think it is the student version of "Quality Education in the United States". It uses first-hand information to vividly and vividly show real American classrooms to readers, and answers various questions about American middle school life that many Chinese readers are concerned about. This Chinese child who received an American education used his unique perspective and humorous and vivid language to describe the seven most impressive American teachers. They have their own special teaching attitudes and teaching methods, some are humorous, and some are childlike.

When Keigo Higashino reached middle age, he suddenly fell in love with snowboarding and was so obsessed that he couldn't help himself. Every day off, I would go back and forth to the snow-capped mountains like crazy and never tire of it. In the book, he calls himself "Uncle Skater" and records his days of learning snowboarding in an almost sarcastic and humorous way. Skiing, World Cup, curling... Keigo Higashino, who has returned to ordinary life, is so obsessed with various sports. In order to have the opportunity to participate in every skiing trip, I ignored the efforts of my family and friends to dissuade me and was willing to take on all kinds of adventures. Writing and sports are two parallel life states of Keigo Higashino. He challenges his own limits in writing and challenges the limits of life in skiing. "Snowboarding is fun, that's a fact, but fun is not everything. There are many more interesting things in the world than skiing. I think what fascinates me is 'progress'." - Keigo Higashino

Thanks to the urging of Saint-Exupery, the author of "The Little Prince", this masterpiece has been continuously reprinted. This is the memoir of author Beryl Markham's thirty years of life in Africa, showing this extraordinary woman's legendary life from childhood to 1936: raising horses, taming horses, hunting lions, catching elephants, flying airplanes, and becoming the first pilot to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. This book is a series of memories connected by fragments of thirty years in Africa, telling the life experience of the legendary woman Beryl Markham from childhood to 1936. She is passionate about training racehorses and flying airplanes. The book includes her childhood in Africa, her participation in hunting, her friendship with the local indigenous people, the process of training racehorses, and her past experiences of flying a single-wing, two-seater wooden propeller plane alone, engaging in professional flying in East Africa, and hunting for elephants with a hunting team. It also describes in detail the political and natural dangers she encountered while flying back to the UK from Africa. Finally, it records her solo flight across the Atlantic from the UK to North America in September 1936.

This journey started with a commuter subway, followed by a relay of various trains, including the "Lone Star" that spanned six states in the United States, the "Aztec Eagle" that revealed the decadence and sensuality of Mexico like a showcase, the mountain train that crossed the lofty mountains to Peru, and the "Pan Am" that crossed the national border and was more than a thousand miles long... Finally, the journey ended with the century-old Patagonia Express, which was as fast as an old cow. Paul Theroux traveled from Medford, Massachusetts, close to the big city of Boston, to the small town of Esquel in the Patagonian plateau of Argentina. On the steadily moving train, other people's terminal is his starting point, and the journey of dialogue with space begins.

"The Paris Review·Poet Interviews" includes long interviews with the following eighteen poets: Marianne Moore, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Blaise Sandral, George Seferis, Anne Sexton, Philip Larkin, John Ashbery, Derek Walcott, W. S. Merwin, Octavio Paz, Yehuda Amichai, Yves Bonnefoy, Czeslaw Miłosz, Ted Hughes, Gary Snyder, Seamus Heaney, Robert Bly, Jack Gilbert.

This book is content-guided based on the Chinese version of "Ulysses" (translated by Xiao Qian and Wen Jieruo), and the obscure text content is analyzed and introduced chapter by chapter. Through the three parts of "Searching", "Wandering" and "Returning", the relationship between "Ulysses" and "Homer's Epic" is smoothed out and clearly analyzed, and the writing techniques in the article are also briefly analyzed.

Thoreau was a practitioner of simple life. He lived in nature all year round, roamed mountains, rivers and lakes, appreciated the agility of nature, and took it as his important mission in life. He is known as the founder of nature essays. His writing is concise, powerful, simple, natural, and thoughtful, and he is unique in American prose in the 19th century. This book was written at the same time as "Walden" and mainly describes Thoreau's trip with his brother on the Concord and Merrimac rivers in a self-made boat. In addition to the description of the scenery, there are also many Thoreau's associations with history, politics, and daily life to illustrate the role of the environment on the spirit and how the human soul can be purified in the natural environment.

Thoreau was an American writer and philosopher. He created more than 20 first-class collections of prose throughout his life. His prose was concise, powerful, simple, natural, and rich in thought, making him unique among American prose in the 19th century. To this day, it is still loved by everyone. This book records Thoreau's three visits to the Maine Forest. He once called out to "live here forever, live here forever, and sleep here forever." These pleasant trips to Maine have also been turned into sincere and simple words, recorded in the book "Maine Forest", so that every reader can learn to appreciate nature, respect nature, and integrate with nature. This book incorporates the author's sincere emotions and expresses the author's love for nature.

Thoreau stayed away from the hustle and bustle of the world. He wanted to find an authentic state of existence and a more poetic life in the tranquility of nature. The book "Walden" records in detail the writer's daily life and thoughts for two years. He cultivated land next to his cabin, planted in spring and harvested in autumn, and was self-sufficient. He is a son of nature. He admires nature, makes friends with nature, talks with lakes, forests and birds, observes animals and plants in the forest, plays the flute on the boat, fishes by the lake, and writes down his observations and thoughts in the cabin at night. He pursued spiritual life and paid attention to the growth of the soul. He proudly declared: "Everyone is the king of his own kingdom. Compared with this kingdom, the Tsarist Empire is just a humble country, like a small snowball in the ice and snow." Thoreau tells us with his practical actions: Most of the luxuries people pursue, most of the so-called comfort of life, are not only unnecessary, but also a great hindrance to human progress. "Walden" describes the author's deep thinking and self-reshaping process in a simple life. The writing style is quiet and tranquil, thought-provoking, and has a calming power.

Xuanzang traveled across the Western Regions to Tianzhu to obtain scriptures. European medieval scholars wanted to cross the English Channel and cross the Alps for a rare volume from an Italian monastery. Nowadays, the Internet provides a convenience that humans cannot resist, with nearly endless reading possibilities at the fingertips. In the digital age, where will human civilization with "books" as its carrier go? We asked two people on the planet who are perhaps the most qualified to talk about this topic: Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere. One is a dazzling encyclopedic scholar, a world-renowned Italian philosopher, semiotician, and novelist; the other is a film dean, a famous screenwriter, and the founder of the French National Film Institute. They are both bibliophiles and rare book trackers. They have a deep understanding of books and a keen insight into the changes in various cultural carriers in the technological revolution.

As a well-known writer, May Satten has made achievements in the fields of poetry, novels and non-fiction. Among them, diary constitutes a unique charm in her writing. This book collects two diaries of May Satten, "Recovering" and "After the Stroke". In the book, she candidly recorded two difficult periods in her life: the age of 66, and a period of many years of emotional distress. The relationship came to an end. At this time, she not only fell into the quagmire of depression, but also underwent a mastectomy. However, "the blow awakened the hidden power." She continued to read and write with perseverance and courage, took good care of her living space, and finally got out of the predicament with remarkable grace. At the age of 73, she unfortunately suffered a stroke, but she was still not knocked down. Instead, she drew strength from nature and daily life, deeply thought about her relationship with the past, and completed a journey of mental and physical recovery.

This book is the pioneer work of British essay literature. With its concise language, beautiful writing style, thorough reasoning, and repeated aphorisms, this book occupies an important position in the history of world literature. It has been translated into many languages ​​and published, and remains a best-seller to this day. In 1985, it was selected as one of the "20 Best Books in Human History" by the American "Life" magazine; in the same year, it was selected as a recommended book in the American "Good Reading Guide".

This book is known as the pioneer work of stream-of-consciousness novels. The book is divided into eighteen chapters. Its internal structure is closely related to Homer's "The Odyssey". Each chapter has its own unique writing skills and corresponds to a story theme of "The Odyssey". The characters and plots also correspond to the "Odyssey" at different levels. In 2000, some important British and American media unanimously listed "Ulysses" as one of the most influential masterpieces in the world in the 20th century.

This is a book about the life memories of a shepherd. Some people make their lives entirely of their own making. James Ribanks is not. He is the eldest son of a shepherd, and his father is also the eldest son of a shepherd. His family has lived and worked in the Lake District for generations, arranging it according to the seasons and work needs, and this has been the case for hundreds of years. If you were a Viking, you might understand their daily work: putting the sheep on the mountain in the summer, taking care of the hay, going to the market in the autumn to replenish the sheep, taking care of the sheep in the winter, and lambs being born in the spring. Everyone is so busy that the sheep return to the mountains. These modern messages from the ancient countryside tell a story of a connection to the land, depicting a way of life that is rarely noticed but has profoundly shaped history.

"Miłosz Dictionary" is such a substitute. It replaces a novel, an essay about the entire 20th century, a memoir. Everyone recorded in the book is active in a network, interprets each other, relies on each other, and is related to certain historical facts of the 20th century. "Dictionary" (Abecadlo) is a unique literary form in Poland. It is a loose style composed of short articles (entries). The articles are arranged in the order of the first letter of the entry name. "Miłosz Dictionary" is the 20th century that Milosz personally experienced and witnessed. Almost all those who have been to heaven or hell on earth with him have gone to the ghost kingdom.

This book is Lawrence Block's only memoir. It is also a travelogue, an autobiography, and a "sporting adventure" that perhaps only a novelist can write. In this book, he tells his experience as a runner and walker. The book is divided into three parts, with a total of 31 chapters. He tells walking stories one by one using exquisite montage techniques, integrating the author's growth experience, writing career, characters in the book, and walking experience into a humorous, ironic, and stripped-down book of life, sharing his successes, failures, and trials with the world. Many of Bullock's most popular masterpieces were written during competitions that challenged physical limits. He also discovered that walking and writing are exactly the same: all you have to do is take turns moving forward with two legs, and the secret is to stay on the field and keep moving forward.

Circles drawn with blue chalk appeared continuously on the streets of Paris late at night. Inside the circles were discarded sundries such as beer bottle caps, vegetable boxes, shoes, magazines, hats, etc. They were different every time, with the same sentence written on the sides. Is this a prank by a quirk, or is there another conspiracy? Sheriff Adamsberg thought the matter was strange and felt that something unusual would appear in the circle. He sent people to investigate and arranged for guards. Sure enough, corpses began to appear in the circle. At the same time, Adamsberg and his assistants also traced some clues, but the real murderer still had to go deep into the tiger's den and conduct rigorous reasoning to catch it.

"Time Train" is Patti Smith's new memoir that is hard to categorize and sincere in emotion after "Just Kids". The author calls this book his "road map of life," which is about memory and creation, literature and coffee, meditation and detective drama, about mourning and hope, and about time and its passage. There are a total of twenty essays in the book, like twenty suspended stations, connecting the cafes or other places she visited during her travels around the world. The dots of light reflected by the prism of memories bring readers into the place of her inspiration and desire. "Time Train" begins with Eno's Coffee. In this Greenwich Village cafe that she visits every morning, Smith sips black coffee and watches the mirage of today's world. With a nostalgia for the past appearance of things, she often immerses herself in a notebook and writes furiously... Her smooth and exquisite brushstrokes lead readers to shuttle between dreams and reality, the past and the present.

"Collected Essays of Montaigne" is Montaigne's main work and one of the three major prose classics in modern Europe. In "Collected Essays of Montaigne", Montaigne observes and thinks about all living beings in the world from the perspective of a wise man, quotes from many sources, and puts forward his own unique insights into many common thoughts and feelings of human beings, giving people the opportunity to think deeply and reflect, and can improve people's understanding of life.