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It is this book that makes "Provence" synonymous with leisurely life, a glass of wine, a comfortable chair, and listening to the gurgling flow of simple time! After working in the advertising industry on Madison Avenue in New York for 15 years, the Englishman Peter Mayer quit his job and moved to Provence, France in 1987. Unable to suppress his love for the local customs and folk customs, he wrote "A Year in Provence", a casual act that became a classic and set off a global trend of pursuing quality life. A farmhouse, a vineyard, and a soul escaping from the city. He uses elegant and humorous words to record the freedom and joy of these twelve months, leading countless anxious hearts to stay in a kind of happiness called enjoying time.

"Doctor Zhivago" is like a pyramid, made up of multiple ideological contents layer by layer. Each level has many connotations for exploration; it is also like a rich mine, which contains inexhaustible literary, aesthetic and artistic values. The reason why Paschal's work has become a literary classic is precisely because of the artistic value of the work itself - the novel and unique narrative method, the beautiful and concise narrative language and the profound philosophical content. This book focuses on the narrative style, narrative language and intertextuality in the narrative of "Doctor Zhivago". It uses micro-form analysis as the basis to reveal the language style, rhetorical features and narrative art of this classic, and then explores the ideological themes and spiritual connotations hidden in the text. The three levels studied in this book are an organic and unified whole, closely connected and inseparable from each other. The specific analysis of narrative method and narrative language aims to reveal Pasternak's creative thoughts, and the exploration of the theme and connotation of the work is inseparable from the layer-by-layer analysis of the form and text language of the work.

O'Neill uses dramatic art to pay attention to people's spiritual world, interpret people's ethics and morality through drama, and save sinking souls. This book starts from\

"Ben and Me" Newbery Children's Literature Award Silver Award! "Ben and Me" uses the form of a fairy tale, humorous writing style, and lifelike illustrations to uniquely reinterpret the story of Benjamin Franklin, an outstanding figure in American history. For more than half a century, this book has been accompanied by countless children, who have explored the history of the United States, perceived the descendants of the world, and realized the true taste of life through the pen. The manuscript of this book was sent to me by an architect friend of mine. Some time ago, when he was leading craftsmen to renovate an old house in Philadelphia, he discovered a small secret room.

"Heidi: The Hundred-Year Adventures of a Puppet" won the Newbery Gold Medal for Children's Literature. It tells the story of a puppet who experienced a thrilling sea life with sailors and escaped from the clutches of the island's natives; it also served as a model for a painter and in exhibitions. The star at the meeting... In this "life" of Hidi, she not only felt the incomparable warmth and care from the world, but also experienced the impermanence and coldness of the world, but she was always full of longing for everything in the world, and full of love and blessings for the people she paid attention to.

A new family is coming, and the little animals in Rabbit Slope are beginning to become excited and uneasy. Expectations and imaginations, fears and suspicions linger in the hearts of the little animals and linger. Can the repeated trials of the little animals relieve their doubts? Will the new family be friendly neighbors or evil enemies? Behind the twists and turns of the plot, a series of tangled and complicated mental journeys are reflected, all of which are condensed into a classic masterpiece - "Rabbit Slope". "Ben and Me" uses the form of a fairy tale, humorous writing style, and lifelike illustrations to uniquely reinterpret the story of Benjamin Franklin, an outstanding figure in American history. For more than half a century, this book has been accompanied by countless children, who have explored the history of the United States, perceived the descendants of the world, and realized the true taste of life through the pen. "Heidi: The Hundred-Year Adventures of a Puppet (Full Illustrated Translation)" Newbery Gold Medal for Children's Literature.

"The Education of Love" is a children's literature work created by Italian writer Amicis in 1886. This is a diary-style novel. The book is told in the voice of the young protagonist Enrico, telling his experiences and ideological activities in and outside the school from the first day of school in October of the fourth grade to July of the following year. It is also interspersed with many admonishing articles written by his parents for him, as well as touching stories that the teacher reads out in class every month. Love is the theme of the entire novel. In these plain words, the author integrates all the great loves in the world - the love of teachers and students, the love of parents and the love of classmates. These seemingly ordinary feelings can stir up waves of emotional ripples in the readers' hearts, making the virtue of love stay in their hearts forever.

"The Newbery Medal for Children's Literature: The Colored-Necked Pigeon: The Legend of a Homing Pigeon" is a legendary story about pigeons. Because of the rainbow-like color on its neck, this pigeon, known as the "Flower-necked Pigeon", has been destined to fight to the death with nature's heavy rain, strong winds, and evil crows such as hawks and falcons since its birth. Later, as a carrier pigeon, the flower-necked pigeon was recruited to the battlefield of the World War. It became extremely depressed because it was seriously injured after running through a hail of bullets to deliver information to the Allied forces. Can the flower-necked pigeon return to the sky again...

In September 1915, the 91-year-old Fabre, with the support of his family, sat in a wheelchair and inspected the "Barren Stone Garden" he loved all his life for the last time. In this beloved land of "cornflowers and insects", Fabre spent 30 years completing ten volumes of "Insects", a great classic spanning the fields of science and literature.

"The Most Beautiful Beauty in the World is Pure Joy" is a collection of essays about the philosophy of life. The author Eugene O'Neill is good at absorbing the artistic essence of various countries and periods. As a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the only collection of prose works in Eugene O'Neill's life is this book "The Best Beauty in the World is Pure Joy". "The Best Beauty in the World is Pure Joy" is the essence of Eugene O'Neill's philosophy of life, the most essential nutrient condensed from his rich life history, and the most dazzling brilliance in life. The writing style is concise and concise, the images narrated in the book are vivid, vivid and exquisite, and highly readable. It is a must-have prose work for the majority of literature, prose and drama lovers.

"The Record of Panic" is a collection of late essays by Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, all of which are fragments of "fake diary". It is one of the author's masterpieces. It was a work that had been lost for a long time and was later collected and compiled by many Pessoa research experts. The author's stance changes from time to time in his essays. Sometimes he is a spiritual person, and sometimes he becomes a material person... This is the perseverance in the changes, the similarities in the differences, the firmness in the contradictions, and the clarity in the incomprehensible. It is this kind of spiritual temperament and this kind of breakthrough to the world alone that makes Pessoa praised by contemporary critics as "the core figure of European modernism", "an outstanding classic writer" and the writer "who can best deepen people's hearts".

Roy and Celestial are a newly married young couple in whom the American Dream and the New South can be seen simultaneously. Roy comes from an ordinary family, but is young and ambitious; Celestial is from an upper-class family and is a promising artist. A year and a half after their marriage, their lives were separated by an unexpected event: Roy was arrested by the police and sentenced to twelve years in prison. Celestial knew her husband was not guilty. But after the incident, she couldn't shake off her inner loss and uneasiness, so she had to seek comfort from her childhood friend and best man at the wedding, Andre. Her love with Roy was once everything to her, but as her husband went to jail longer and longer, she gradually lost her persistence in love. Five years later, the court's decision was suddenly reversed, and Roy returned to Atlanta, preparing to start a new life with his wife. Celestial is faced with a difficult choice: give up their relationship, or rebuild a house of love that has lost its foundation?

Mr. Gao Jian has dedicated his life to the research and translation of English literature, especially English prose. He is an accomplished translator and selector of English and American prose in China. He is especially famous for his translation style. His translations are exquisite, thoughtful, elegant, pure and sophisticated. "Pillow Books and Bedside Lamps" is Mr. Gao Jian's latest translation of a collection of famous British and American essays. The name of the book is very representative (take the title of an essay in the book), which can quite summarize the nature of this collection: a group of excellent essays that are relatively relaxed in writing style, but also have a certain degree of difficulty and seriousness in content, with solid substance and rich connotations. In order to facilitate readers' observation and appreciation, it is published in the form of English-Chinese comparison, so that readers can fully appreciate the charm and beauty of English and American essays at a quick glance.

The representative work of Fernando Pessoa, a Portuguese national treasure writer and master of European modernism, was lonely during his lifetime but made a sensation after his death. He shocked the European literary world with his posthumous manuscript "The Book of Disquiet". The author's lonely ravings during his lifetime are disturbing and thought-provoking, reaching deep into his heart. Loneliness written with life, a pillow book dedicated to every lonely person. Pessoa lived a lonely life with a monotonous life and a sensitive heart. He created a spiritual universe with elegant and philosophical words, leading himself to transcend the ordinary life and embrace a transparent and clear world. Penguin Random House authorizes Richard Zenith's authoritative manuscript for the first time in China. The Guardian: Richard Zenith's English translation is excellent and is the best version we have seen in a long time. The 2015 edition of Richard Zenith's translation corrects errors in the early Portuguese original version based on the latest research results on the Pessoa manuscript. Pessoa's high-scoring translator and young translator Liu Yongjun devoted his heart to the translation. It was well received by Douban with a score of 8.7. It took a year to revise more than 2,000 points and carefully present the original appearance of Pessoa's legacy.

This book examines the interaction and tension between imperial discourse and national narrative in American literature (1832-1918), and explores how American literature, as an ideological representation, reflects the political culture and power relations of the empire. By analyzing regional imagination, representation and myth construction in American literary works, we explore the presentation of imperial discourse and national narrative in American literature. The history of the development of the American nation-state is also a history of intertwined national construction and imperial imagination. The tension between the two runs throughout, making each stage of its development carry the imprint of imperial discourse politics. It not only demonstrates the changes in American social concepts, but also reflects Americans' territorial awareness, imperial imagination, and national identity construction.

This monograph is based on the literary stylistic analysis model proposed by the famous British stylistician Rich, and borrows the method of corpus linguistics to focus on comparing the similarities and differences between the Bible text and Hemingway text in terms of word choice, sentence selection, plot planning and rhetoric from the four dimensions of lexicon, syntax, discourse and rhetoric, and conducts a detailed analysis. The research results believe that Hemingway's stylistic style does have a certain origin relationship in the above four aspects, and Hemingway's works inherit the stylistic tradition of biblical literature to a large extent.

Lara was a famous Spanish essayist in the 19th century. There are 23 representative satirical essays (including custom essays, literary criticism, social and political commentary, etc.) Such as "Come Tomorrow: A Collection of Lara's Satires", "Old-School Spaniards", "Dialogue between the Elf and the Bookseller", and "Letters of Figaro". As the Spanish writer Goytilo said, in Lara's close-ups, "a keen diagnosis of the Spanish disaster" can be found.

The Spanish poetry world in the 20th century was "another golden century". Although Machado and Jimenez were both influenced by modernism represented by Ruben Dario, they each took the lead and became representatives of the "1998 generation" and the "14 generation". The "Generation of 1927" is a gathering of stars that complement each other: García Lorca, Alberti, Alessandre, Jorge Guillén, Salinas, Damaso Alonso, etc., Who jointly wrote a colorful myth in the Spanish contemporary poetry world. They abandoned the automatic writing of French surrealism, but paid attention to exploring the surrealist elements in traditional poetry, thus turning Spanish lyric poetry from "pure" to "pluralistic". The Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 divided the Spanish poetry world, and "social poetry" flourished. Since the late 1950s, with the development of the economy, the prosperity of tourism, the loosening of censorship, and the influx of foreign culture, especially North American popular culture represented by movies, the poetry world has become increasingly active. After the transition from the "50 Generation" to the birth of the "New School", Spanish poetry has regained its colorful appearance. From the perspective of combining theory and practice, this book conducts a relatively detailed review and review of the development, genre characteristics, and masterpieces of Spanish poetry in the 20th century.

A new collection of Ted Chiang's works, including "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Door", "Breath", "The Long Road Ahead", "The Life Cycle of Software Objects", "Darcy's New Automatic Machine Nanny", "Double Truth", "The Great Silence", "Navel" and "Anxiety is the Dizziness Caused by Freedom" - The Alchemist's Door, free travel through time and space, how does the science fiction version of One Thousand and One Nights unfold? Every breath I take brings this universe one step closer to death. Free will does not exist, but until you believe it, it is not lethal. Science fiction is littered with artificial creatures, like Athena that jumped out of the head of Zeus, fully formed as soon as they appeared. But consciousness doesn't work like this. What is the real life cycle of a software body? My nanny is a machine. What does that mean for a newborn? Memory is always deceiving us, but we don't realize it. How would civilization change if everyone started keeping a continuous life log? We are not the center of the universe, but at the beginning, humans did not know this. If parallel spaces do exist and conversations can take place, how would you exhaust the possibilities of life?

"Story of Your Life" collects eight of Ted Chiang's early works: "The Story of Your Life", the original novel of the movie "Arrival", his debut novel "Tower of Babel", and "Enlightenment", "Division by Zero", "Seventy-two Letters", "The Evolution of Human Science", "Hell is the Absence of God", "A Pleasure of the Eye" - A linguist learned an alien language, which completely changed her world view. In order to get closer to God, humans cut down wood and burned bricks, pulled carts and built towers. After countless generations of hard work, they finally built a majestic Tower of Babel that stands between heaven and earth. With just a small bottle of potion, you can have superhuman intelligence. This temptation is irresistible. It's a pity that there is more than one Superman. After the soul-stirring Superman showdown, he realized the ultimate wisdom. Dividing any number by zero will never give a meaningful result. What is the result if the relationship between two people is divided by zero? In a world where "names drive everything", nomenclators play with the seventy-two letters to find the code for the reproduction of the human race. When all human scientific research is limited to interpreting post-human scientific research results, is this kind of research still necessary? The wife dies while an angel descends to earth, but the husband must learn how to love God in order to be reunited with his wife after death.

"Pillow" is a collection of essays written by Seishonagon, a talented woman from the Heian period in Japan. It consists of 12 volumes and 305 paragraphs, divided into three parts: collection, diary, and random thoughts. Qing Shaonayan described what she saw and heard during her tenure in the palace, covering geographical features, vegetation, flowers and birds, inner emotions, life interests, etc., Showing delicate observation and elegant aesthetics.

This book focuses on domestic foreign literature research in the past 30 years since the reform and opening up. It focuses on individual cases and issues and is divided into four sections: "Writers' Works", "Literary History and Translation", "Literary Theory and Concepts", and "Overall Reflection on National Literature Research". It has fifteen chapters in total. Each chapter selects typical writers, works, events, phenomena, concepts, genres, issues, etc. In my country's foreign literature research since the reform and opening up for in-depth discussion. The articles in the "Writers' Works" section are arranged in order of the birth date of the writers in question, and cover eight writers including German writers Lessing and Goethe, British writer Ruskin, Russian writer Chekhov, Indian writer Premchand, Arab writer Gibran, French writer Duras, and Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. They are highly representative in the literature of their respective countries, but this project examines them as important cases mainly for their typical significance in more than 30 years of research in my country. The purpose is to reflect on and summarize their acceptance, dissemination, interpretation, translation, misunderstanding and other phenomena with Chinese characteristics in our country.

The "Golden Russia Series" is edited by Wang Jianzhao, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Institute of Foreign Literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University and a famous poet and translator. It selects classic works by Pushkin, Herzen, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and other masters to present beautiful and profound Russian literature to Chinese readers.

One of the legendary building blocks of modern Britain are the old inns, which permeate British history. Whether it is a traditional or modern old inn, you only need to experience a little bit to experience the British style of the Victorian period. This book describes some of the historic London inns and country inns. Unlike the magnificent high-rise buildings, those inns are either nameless or unknown, but they are all full of the unique charm of retro British style.

This book is one of the representative works of Mr. Soetsu Yanagi, the father of Japanese folk arts. As the founder and first president of the Japan Folk Art Association, Mr. Soetsu Yanagi has decades of valuable collecting experience. With his love for things and his rich collection experience, he recorded these precious insights and essence in these famous essays, talking about why people collect, good and bad tastes in collecting, what he gained from his own collecting experience, etc. He put forward views such as "collecting is a deep love for objects" and "taking pride in buying at a high price is a shallow taste". Constructed an oriental aesthetic system with unique significance and discussed the principles of beauty. Collection is a kind of love for objects.

This book is a collection of essays on the subject of ceramics by Japanese art master Kitaoji Rashanto. The article includes some creative talks introduced by Kitaoji Rashan from the perspective of the creator, such as "My Pottery Making" and "Learned from Building Kilns"; articles from the perspective of appreciators such as "Cooking and Utensils" and "Pottery Appreciation", as well as introductions to Japanese pottery, such as "Japanese Pottery", "Bizen Ware", "The Value of Shino Ware", etc. He has a broad vision and a writing style that goes from simple to profound. He has a very high professional level and is also told in a way that is easy for the public to accept, and is accompanied by rich pictures. In the form of pictures and texts, it leads readers into the wonderful world of Tao. In daily life, people who understand what beauty and elegance are and bring them into their lives will be rich inside even if they live a poor life. I want to make the world a more beautiful place, even just a little bit. My work is a small expression of this desire. --People from Lushan, Beida Road

The book "Travel Notes on the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River and Chongqing - Trade and Travel in Western China in the Late Qing Dynasty" mainly describes the journey of the British Li Dele in the late Qing Dynasty, who traveled through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River to Chongqing after hard work, and described what he saw and heard along the way. There are actually three voyages described in the book. The first was the voyage from Shanghai to Chongqing in 1883. The second time was the voyage back down the river from Chongqing to Hankou in the same year. The third time was in 1898 when the author led the ship Lichuan upstream to Chongqing. This was the ship's maiden voyage to Chongqing. At the same time, it also describes Chongqing's social and economic situation at that time. The author's purpose is to allow ships to sail to Chongqing, open up the Sichuan market, and expand Britain's sphere of influence in China. The author also discusses some related issues, such as the livelihood of the boat people, religious beliefs and missionary work, women's foot binding, Feng Shui superstition, opium cultivation and smoking, mining and local industrial and commercial economy. The author has a general good impression of the Chinese working people [especially the people of Sichuan (Chongqing)], and has exposed the corruption and incompetence of the then Qing rulers and their officials at all levels.

"Osmanthus" is a long poem about China by the famous poet Adonis. It describes the poet's trip to China in September and October 2018, especially the impressions, feelings and thoughts of the trip to southern Anhui and Huangshan. The entire poem consists of 50 relatively independent poems. Every line reveals his love for China's natural landscape and long history and culture, as well as his friendship for the Chinese people. Friendship is one of the keynotes of the long poem "Osmanthus". Adonis's deep affection for China's nature, culture and friends are evident in the poem. The China in his eyes is "not the vertical and horizontal lines, but the bursts of light." The Chinese women in his mind are "a procession of clouds, surrounded by the thunder of form, guided by the lightning of meaning."

The selected translations in this book are poems from various periods of ancient Arabia (the Jahiliya period, the Islamic period, the Umayyad period, the Abbasid period, the modern period and the Andalusian period). The selected poems involve important poetry genres, such as the hanging poems and chivalrous poems of the Jahiliya period; and representative people of each period, such as Ummrull Qais, Antara, Baishar bin Burd, Abu Nuwas, Mutanaibi, Abu Attahiyeh, Mai'ali, etc. The topics of poetry include descriptive poems, hymns, praise poems, chastity poems, erotic poems, satirical poems, philosophical poems, wine poems, exhortation poems, mourning poems, etc.

This book is an innovative and in-depth study of the nationalist literary trends prevalent in Asia and Africa from the mid-19th century to the 20th century. After defining the connotation and extension of "Oriental modern nationalist literary thought", this book systematically studies the regional characteristics of this thought, its different internal tendencies, its relationship with other important literary trends in Eastern literature at the same time, popular historical themes, classic nationalist writers, national anthems, banned books, and expatriate writers and other special phenomena in modern oriental nationalist literature. This book reveals the core, characteristics and richness of "Oriental modern nationalist literary thought" from different perspectives and levels, and explains the unique value and significance of this literary thought in the modern world literature as a whole.

Through years of accumulation, the editor-in-chief has selected more than 70 representative classic short stories from more than 3,000 short stories by hundreds of well-known British writers and translated them into Chinese. This book introduces the author and creative background of the novel before each novel, and then summarizes the core content and main ideas of each novel in concise language, so that readers can understand it at a glance and have an overall grasp of the content. After the original text, the editor also designed several questions for each article to guide readers to think deeply after reading this article. Each part is bilingual in English and Chinese. This book can be used as a textbook for British and American short story courses for English majors in colleges and universities, an auxiliary textbook for British and American literature courses for English majors, an auxiliary textbook for practical courses in translation majors, a postgraduate elective course textbook, and as a reading and study material for the majority of British and American literature and short story lovers.

Literary iconography is a new knowledge in the new era. "The relationship between literature and images" is a topic of widespread concern in the entire literary, cultural and intellectual circles, including literary theory, and is highly realistic. "Literary iconography" advocates paying equal attention to text and pictures. It is different from the simple examination of text, looking directly at images from literature, or looking back at literature from images. It advocates starting from the basic standpoint of literary research, focusing on image research, and taking the study of the relationship between pictures and text as the core. It also explores the narrative function of images around the historical context of the production, presentation, consumption, dissemination, and evolution of literary images, and sorts out the communication and interaction of literary images in different cultural contexts, thereby laying the foundation for the construction of a new disciplinary branch "literary iconography."

This is the most important collection of academic and cultural essays by the famous contemporary overseas historian Mr. Yu Yingshi over the years. It has been published together and divided into "value chapter", "culture chapter", "history chapter", "scholar chapter", "Confucianism chapter", "reading chapter", "nostalgia chapter" and "sitting in seclusion", "alma mater chapter" and "self-narrative chapter".

This book uses the urbanization process and urban lifestyle as a perspective to re-examine British and American modernist poetry, and explores the transformation of poetry from a pastoral mode to an urban mode in modern urban cultural space. The author reviews the history of development and criticism of British and American urban poetry, and then makes an argument from three aspects based on the different strategies of urban writing of British and American modernist poetry: first, draws on Benjamin's urban sociology theory to analyze the concept of "flaneur" in Baudelaire's poetry, and examines the reflection of the "flaneur"'s gaze and observation posture in Eliot's "The Waste Land" and many other poems. 2. Borrowing the German aesthetic term "Thinking of Placement", using relevant theories of Chinese and Western cross-media criticism, and using Wilde's "Morning Impression" and other poems as models, to examine how British and American modernist poets in a cross-cultural context achieve the aesthetic transcendence of art over daily life through poetic techniques such as imagery, text symbols, creation of color line light and shadow effects, and the use of synaesthetic rhetoric. 3. Borrowing the ancient Greek rhetorical term "artistic transformation" and using relevant theories of Chinese and Western cross-art criticism to explore how to inherit and develop the "artistic transformation" tradition of Western poetry creation and achieve "cross-art transformation" from non-poetry texts such as painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and dance to poetic texts.

At the age of seventeen, V. S. Naipaul obtained a government scholarship and left Trinidad to study at Oxford. From then on, he began to correspond with his father. Four years later, my father passed away. Four years later, his son's work was successfully published. This book collects letters between V. S. Naipaul and his father and other family members from 1950 to 1954. Describing the true growth path of a great literary genius, 249 unusual, intimate and candid letters from home. "I miss home. Do you know what I long for? I long for the night that comes suddenly without warning, and I long for the crazy rainstorm at night. I long for the monotonous sound of the rain hitting the roof, or the sound of raindrops falling on the wide leaves of the beautiful wild taro plants. In short, I long for home and the atmosphere of home. I miss cycling, the sea, the back seats of the Rialto Cinema, the kind of cigarettes I smoked, and the embarrassing things that happen to everyone."

This book is a collection of essays on the theme of tea and beauty by the famous Japanese aesthetic master Soetsu Yanagi. Collects Liu Zongetsu's articles on tea ceremony, tea utensils, aesthetics, etc. In the book, Yanagi Zongetsu conducted a unique and profound discussion on the theme of what is beauty and what is the tea ceremony, and discussed beauty from multiple perspectives. Liu Zongyue believes that to deeply understand the heart and essence of beauty of tea, one must touch and observe it at close range, and observe the beauty through famous tea ceremony utensils. He believes that only by looking at tea ceremony and tea utensils with a free vision that is not bound by fixed ideas can tea enter a freer world. In the article, he also advocated the common principles of Japanese beauty, commented on tea drinkers of the past and present, and put forward pertinent and serious requirements for modern tea drinkers. A true tea person should encourage himself as a creator. As far as vision is concerned, boundless freedom is the most important thing. What most tea drinkers lack today is this kind of freedom, tea state, and a deep connection with the virtue of simplicity, but not with arrogance. The tea ceremony is also a lesson in poverty. --Liu Zongyue.

This book is one of the representative works of Mr. Etsu Yanagi, the father of Japanese folk arts. Mr. Yanagi Soetsu wrote these famous essays with a love for objects and rich collection experience. He recorded the stories of these objects together with his own perception of "creation", and thought about the nature of creation from the perspective of a folk artist. He believes that beautiful things are those things that are integrated into daily life and exist for granted. Objects will only come alive in life. He cherishes every encounter with beautiful things, and in these encounters, he has completed questioning and thinking about what "beauty" is. The book not only contains stories about the objects, but also wonderful stories between people about the objects. If you want to improve your appreciation, you must first learn to abandon all constraints. This learning process is like religious practice. If you do this, beauty will be invisible to you. --Liu Zongyue.

"Travel, Life's Most Valuable Investment" is a very influential classic book by investment guru Jim Rogers. It records Rogers' thrilling trip around the world in the early 1990s. After 22 months and a journey of nearly 100,000 kilometers, spanning 52 countries and regions on 6 continents, this investment guru shed his glory as a successful man. As a 37-year-old backpacker, he experienced the joys and sorrows of travel and re-examined the meaning of life. Traveling around the world made him understand that many countries become rich, but over a few years, or decades, or centuries, pride will lead to decline. He also understands that even if all wealth is gone, life goes on. Jim said: "If you have a dream, go for it because you won't get a second chance. If you want to change your life, do it now."

This book is one of the Green Prose Reading Series. It is a collection of new prose works by the famous writer Bolji Yuanye. The author has numerous articles that have been selected into primary and secondary school textbooks, and is very suitable for primary and secondary school students to read. The content of this book includes: flowers wake up from dew, flowers have words, cockscombs, honeysuckle, green glazed lily, cotton, you bloom and I bloom, the rotation and burning of colors, the fragrance of plain flowers, sweet sentences, cherry blossoms missing cherries on the branches, growing old together with pear blossoms, sugarcane that sweetens itself to death, etc.

"Illustrated Book of Flora and Fauna of Walden" is a natural history classic written for everyone by Thoreau, a representative figure in American literary circles in the mid-19th century. If "Thoreau's Diary" is the "Bible" for nature lovers, then "Walden's Illustrated Book of Flora and Fauna" is the much-anticipated essence. The book uses 600 diary entries to introduce 500 species of wild plants and 400 species of wild animals, and also inserts 200 exquisite illustrations drawn by the National Book Award-winning illustrators Barry Moser and Debbie Cotter Caspari. For many years, Thoreau gave himself the task of roaming the woodlands, meadows, and wetlands of his native Concord area, observing the plants, animals, weather, and his neighbors, and then recording his observations in his "Thoreau's Journal." This record is not only a running account of natural history, but also an in-depth exploration of the spiritual significance of animals and plants to Thoreau. The "Illustrated Book of Flora and Fauna of Walden" unearths the treasure of "Thoreau's Diary", collects its philosophical thoughts about plants and interesting things about animals, and presents a panoramic picture of the natural world around the writer Thoreau.

Gene children, node humans, enhanced metahumans, data vampires, mechanically modified humans, kings of discarded objects, god-making artists... Tel Aviv, Central Star Station, Jerusalem, Tangyuan City, Moon Port, Polo Port... Earth, Mars, Meru River, Ceres, Titan, initial space, chaotic universe... In the not-too-distant future, after a world-wide diaspora, 250,000 people are stranded at the Central Star Station. Cities are dilapidated, technology is out of control, life is cheap, data is overflowing, and the earth has become a garbage dump in the universe. In the face of war, diaspora, invasion of data and technology, the very definition of "human" has been questioned. The various "human beings" living here continue their evolution...

This set is the masterpiece of eight well-known Nobel Prize winners. They are Hermann Hesse's "Demian: The Wandering Boyhood", "Under the Wheel", "Siddhartha" and "Steppenwolf", Albert Camus's "The Plague", Romain Rolland's "Johan Christophe: All 3 Volumes" and "The Biography", Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea", "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell" , Arms" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls", Rabindranath Tagore's "Birds and Crescent Moon", "The Religion of Man" and "Gitanjali", Jean-Dominique Briere's "Bob Dylan: Songs of a Poet", Yeats's "I Thought I'd Be Old with You" and Thelma Lagrave's "The Travels of Niels Riding a Goose".

Starting from the perspective of thought, memory and myth, this book considers Silko's political exploration of cultural home, historical home and spiritual home in "Ceremony", "Annals of the Dead" and "Dune Garden", revealing the survival plight of Indians under the oppression of colonialism and imperialism and their unremitting efforts to seek cultural, historical and spiritual home. In the process of clarifying historical accumulation, the Indian history in small letters is brought to the surface, and the silenced minority groups re-enter the space of historical discourse. This book reveals the Indians' pursuit of cultural, historical and spiritual homeland through Silko's three novels. On the one hand, it reveals the hidden historical, cultural and political connotations behind homeland. On the other hand, it expresses the author's concern about the Indians' living conditions, highlighting the current significance of the search for homeland.

Have you ever remembered? Rock and roll and Elvis, Superman and Batman comics, hula hoops...

Those things that you thought would never happen, finally happened to you one by one. You ask yourself: How many mornings are left? A door has closed. Another door has opened. You have entered the winter of life. In the sixty-third winter of his life, a cold, windy and rainy winter with almost no sun, Paul Auster sat at his desk and wrote a personal history and memoir about the body, which is like a journey through winter. In "Loneliness and What It Creates" thirty years ago, Auster reflected on loneliness, fatherhood and the writer's consciousness in a touching way, while "Winter Notes" is a more candid self-confession and reflection. He unabashedly revealed the happy and painful physical memories, complex and deep emotional desires, and the bond between his parents in his more than sixty years of life, including the most fragile moments, trying to find unique and shining moments again in the depths of memory.

On the basis of revisiting the classics, this book focuses more on the works of the 20th century, focusing on introducing the writers, works and artistic characteristics of world-famous literary works. It helps readers understand the spirit of Western culture and the charm of Eastern culture in the context of world literature, absorb the essence of human culture, love life, purify the soul, improve overall quality, and then reshape a strong spiritual personality.

There are many ancient temples and a weak view of history. It is closer to artifice and fiction than to nature. Passionate about funny and ridiculous things, there are strange people hidden in the streets and alleys. The unique structure has many holes and is connected to the "other shore". There are three things that are present in the old streets in the city but not in the new suburban ones: ancient trees, religious facilities, and quiet corners. These places are openings to the world... In Kyoto, such openings abound... It is a more metaphysical and charming city than what is depicted in movies and TV shows.

With the deepening of human civilization, the teaching and dissemination of female literature from the perspective of gender culture urgently needs to be popularized in our country. However, the teaching and research of Western female literature with gender culture as the entry point is still relatively marginalized in mainland my country, and related teaching materials are even rarer. This textbook fills the domestic gap from the history of Western women's literature and the perspective of gender culture. This textbook has the following characteristics: First, the textbook is in line with Western feminist trends and helps expand students' international horizons. Second, the teaching materials are based on the purpose of general education courses and help students develop a sound personality. Third, the textbook reflects on male-dominated Western literature and helps cultivate students' critical thinking. Fourth, from the selection of materials, the key and difficult points should be handled properly. Fifth, the writing style is both illustrated and bilingual. Sixth, the textbook handles key points and difficulties skillfully. Except for the works of a few female writers who are respected by mainstream culture and have been included in textbooks, it selects those written by women who have been annihilated by mainstream literature to highlight the status of women in their era.

From the bright and gorgeous Meiji era to the splendid and romantic Taisho era, Moro Meye uses profound and simple writing to outline one after another Japanese strange women as beautiful as cherry blossoms! During the Taisho era, Japan became increasingly wealthy and culturally flourished. Not only did a "new middle class" of industrialists and office workers appear, but a group of insightful people and a "new female class" were also cultivated. Women began to get rid of the unequal treatment given by society and family in the past, and began to explore ways to be independent, engage in emerging industries, and step by step onto the social stage. Following the Japanese historical story, Miya uses her novel style to tell you the wonderful stories of the era when urban life began to be embraced, female consciousness began to awaken, and female charm began to show!