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There are 9 books in the "Moomin Classic Picture Book Series", including "Moomin and the Wishful Star", "Moomin's Birthday Button", "Moomin's Moonlight Adventure", "Moomin's New Friends", "Moomin and the Winter Snow", "Moomin and the Little Ghost", "Moomin's Baby", "Moomin and the Song of the Sea", and "Moomin and the Ice Festival". The story of Moomin is like a children's version of "Growing Pains", covering every detail of daily life, including how to get along with family and friends, character building about courage, dreams, and adventure, emotional communication about fear of the dark, misunderstanding, and jealousy, and the empathy of making wishes, longing, and reunions. The world of Moomin is like the clear sunshine in Finland, warm, like the breath of Finland, light, like the ice and snow world of Finland, white, it is the fairy tale kingdom that every child yearns for. The whole set of books is full of strong Nordic characteristics, showing the simplest feelings among relatives and friends. It is both down-to-earth and full of great wisdom in life. Introduction to the single volume of "Moomin's Birthday Button": Today is Moomin's birthday. His mother gave him a shiny golden button. Show it to your friends! But my friends have no time to pay attention and seem to have forgotten Moomin's birthday. What's going on?

"Pillow" is a collection of Seishonagon's essays. It has 305 paragraphs in total and is divided into three categories: collection, diary, and random thoughts. It writes about the natural scenery of the four seasons, the aristocratic elegance of the Heian period, interesting things in daily life, and the fleeting beauty of all natural things, etc. It is Seishonagon who uses casual, delicate, and poetic writing to record "what he sees with his own eyes and thinks in his heart." The whole work is written in an elegant style, full of taste and philosophy, and presents the bright and free life attitude of Qing Shao Na. "Pillow Grass" was written around 1001. It was the first of Japanese essay literature. It is one of the "Three Great Essays of Japan" together with "The Book of the Hojo" and "Takuranso". Together with "The Tale of Genji" it is one of the "Twin Jewels of Heian Literature". It is a classic work that cannot be bypassed to understand Japanese essay literature.

This book is a collection of correspondence between Coetzee and the popular writer Paul Auster from 2008 to 2011. The two discussed many interesting topics, ranging from friendship, world affairs, life, literature, and art. The topics cover the relationship between literary creation and reality, short stories in life, economic crises, modern wars, sports, personal experiences, etc. It can be said that they talk about everything.

The village of Fistenfeld, located in northeastern Germany, has a long history and has witnessed the vicissitudes of the Thirty Years' War, the Kingdom of Prussia, World War II, and the division and reunification of East and West Germany. Today, the older generation in the village is dying. When autumn arrives, villagers light bonfires, burn witch dummies and sing and dance to celebrate the traditional festival "Anna Day". In the 24 hours before the festival, the story continues: the ferryman who drove the ferry has just died; the 90-year-old female painter once again went out to try to depict the night in the village; a girl named Anna ran around the village at night, accidentally met two mysterious men, and bumped into the experimenter. A former East German lieutenant who attempted suicide; the former East German secret police now devotes all his enthusiasm to raising bantam chickens, and a female fox intends to come out of the hole to steal eggs for her cubs... Beautiful and bizarre legends and historical memories are interspersed, calling us into the epic of the village.

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"The Magic Cup" mainly tells the story of Vince Sturfast, a successful businessman, who became the chairman of the Truth Glass Products Company with the advice and help of his boss and mentor Nora. Truth Company is a very prestigious company in Hacken City, but on the first day that Sturfast took office, the company went bankrupt and laid off all its employees. What exactly happened? As Sidfast goes deep into the closed Truth Building, he encounters characters with different personalities such as elevator attendants, doctors, security guards, window washers, and a little girl living in the building. The crystal cup he carries always appears with instructions at critical moments. What is the secret hidden by Truth Company, and what is the final outcome?

"The Time of Gods on Earth: Appreciation of Greek Mythology" is based on the open class lecture notes, reorganizing and interpreting the numerous Greek myths. Based on the principle of respecting the original text, the book is divided into four major sections: "The Royal Family of the Holy Mountain, Wild Gods, Superman of the Earth, and Sad Love and Flying Love". It solves the long-standing reading problems of Greek mythology, such as mixed stories of humans and gods, intertwined stories, and cold and difficult reading. From the macroscopic politics of the gods and the microscopic love history to the heavy fate and extreme joys and sorrows of the heroes, under the author's explanation, Greek mythology is a secular and bright picture, full of the interest of life and the humanistic spirit. The secrets of human nature and cultural significance contained deep in the story are fully explored, and the interpretation is extremely contemporary, realistic and interesting. In recent years, there have been an endless stream of books on Greek mythology on the market, but there are gaps in the original texts, special emphasis on research, and unreliable editing. It is difficult to find books that are both reliable and good-looking. "The Time of Gods on Earth: An Appreciation of Greek Mythology" has been tested by more than 20 years of practical university open courses. It is reliable, literary, ideological, informative and interesting. Since its publication in 2015, it has been reprinted many times and is regarded as an important book for understanding Greek mythology. This revision and reprint retains nearly a hundred famous paintings from the original version, corrects the original fallacies, and adds new knowledge and new thinking from Teacher Chen's teaching of Greek mythology in recent years for the benefit of readers.

"Born Like Summer Flowers: Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore" includes Tagore's most representative "Birds" and "Crescent Moon", and selects the essence of works such as "Stories and Poems", "Wandering Thoughts", "Gitanjali", "Gardener" and "Fruit Gathering". The language of these poems is clear and beautiful, and their meanings are timeless. They perfectly combine lyricism and philosophy, giving people endless beauty and enlightenment. During the editing process, we selected exquisite pictures that are consistent with the poetry. The pictures can allow readers to enjoy the beauty while appreciating the poetry; the translation is fresh, meaningful, and long-lasting, perfectly showing the spirit and temperament of the original work, and has high literary value and collection value.

From 1776 to 1778, Rousseau, whose reputation fell and was exiled, spent a turbulent time in Paris, France. At the end of his life, without any brothers, relatives or friends, and alone, he put down his disgust for the surrounding environment and in-depth analysis and reflections on himself in the form of prose, creating the last autobiographical work before his death, "The Reveries of a Lonely Walker". The ten "Wanderings" are Rousseau's daydream diaries when he walked on the streets, walked in the fields, studied plants, and recalled the past. They are also Rousseau's attempt to calm his anxiety and soothe his lonely soul over and over again in a state of contradictions and hesitations. He talked with himself and nature, and then conducted a philosophical reflection on human beings and the spiritual world.

After Hermann Hesse divorced his first wife at the age of 46, he moved to Switzerland and retired to the mountains. He savored the joy of life given by nature while reading in sunny days and rainy days, and wrote this classic of poetry and prose. From the prosperity in the "childhood garden" to the joy of the garden in the fishing village on Lake Constance, from the ideal country house in Bern to the small apartment on the shore of Lake Lugano, Hesse's tireless toil is always integrated with the unique natural scenery, each in his own way. If you understand the ups and downs of Hesse's life - suffering from illness since childhood, attempted suicide in his early years, divorced twice, suffered two world wars, was included in the list of undesirable writers by the Nazis for helping refugees, was impoverished in his later years, suffered from eye diseases and headaches - then you will read the author's understanding of life and deep reflection on human nature from this collection of essays, which are as timeless and peaceful as freshwater color paintings. This collection of Hesse's essays is thick in its beauty, and powerful in its tranquility, allowing people to gain depth of thinking through light reading.

"Pillow" is a collection of literary prose essays, written around 1001. The author saw and heard a lot during his tenure in the court. There are more than 300 chapters in the book, which are divided into three parts: collection, diary and random thoughts. Clustering is a list of things of different nature and categories in life, such as "mountains", "sea", "disappointing things", "elegant things", involving geographical features, vegetation, flowers and birds, inner emotions, life interests, etc., Which richly reflects the author's delicate observation and aesthetic taste. The diary records the author's life in the palace, which reflects her deep relationship with Empress Fujiwara Teiko, as well as fragments of her life in the palace. This part of the content reflects the classical style, and allows us to understand the living conditions and tastes of the royal family and nobles in Japan's Heian period. Random thoughts are random thoughts about nature and life, especially the author's bright and free attitude towards life.

"The Golden Rose" is the representative work of the Russian literary master Paustovsky. In the history of literature, it is famous for its "beautiful content, clever style, wonderful language, and large capacity". It is a classic that has stood the test of time and remains a best-seller. It is a collection of beautiful essays that summarizes the author's own creative experience, studies the creative activities of many literary masters in Russia and the world, and discusses literary creation. Paustovsky used his beautiful and vivid writing to magnificently and delicately describe the beautiful human emotions and the picturesque scenery of nature, and elaborated on the writer's mission, the purpose and methods of literary creation, and inspired every literature lover, literary creator and literary critic who reads "The Golden Rose". At the same time, the vivid and moving images created in the book have irresistible and powerful appeal, leaving an indelible impression on people and inspiring people's beautiful feelings of fraternity. "The Golden Rose" has had a great influence on several generations of Chinese writers. They all praised it as a rare and good book and affirmed that the book played an important role in their literary creation. I believe this book will still teach readers a lot today.

"The Legend of the Seven Lucky Gods" is a warm and touching ancient Japanese myth and legend, a story that takes place in winter but warms the heart. This book is a picture book, with hand-drawn illustrations in soft tones that can melt people's hearts. The characters are amiable and cute, making people unable to put it down. Sachiko and Kenji hope to welcome the New Year in the most grand way, but their mother tells them that the family does not have extra money to buy a New Year's Eve dinner. So the two siblings went to the city to sell their homemade handicrafts to raise money, but they got nothing. However, their generous acts of helping others along the way brought an unexpected blessing to the family. May the Seven Gods of Luck come to you! This book was first published in 1997, and a 15th anniversary special edition was released in 2012. In the special edition, the author has specially added a new author's note, and added relevant introductions to Japanese New Year customs and the Seven Gods of Luck.

Koizumi Yakumo was a famous writer who introduced Japan to the Western world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At present, research on Koizumi Yakumo at home and abroad often focuses on a certain aspect, or separates Koizumi Yakumo's thoughts and creations. This book is based on the cutting-edge results of international research on Yakumo Koizumi. It combines the research on Yakumo Koizumi's thoughts with the study of his creations, and strives to gain an overall understanding of Yakumo Koizumi's thoughts and creations. For the literary creation of Yakumo Koizumi, it is more from an internal research perspective to conduct an in-depth interpretation of the literary ontology.

This book has been a best-selling classic for hundreds of years, and is as famous as Fabre's "Insects". The reason why it is still famous today is all because of the excellence of its writing and paintings. The writer Rambert's writing is full, smooth and passionate, and the painter Robert's painting style is warm, aesthetic and poetic. The two perfectly combine to create this century-old classic. This book is translated into Chinese for the first time. The translation is vivid and smooth, and it reads like flowing clouds and water, making people unable to put it down.

This is a collection of reminiscence essays. The author faithfully records his time from the age of two to nine, recounting childhood scenes and Meiji customs. The writing is simple, but what is revealed between the lines are nostalgia for childhood life and innocent and warm memories. Most of the things written in the book are warm things. Even though there were many unpleasant things when I was young, they have a softer tone under the filter of warm colors. The living figure exhibition that my father took me to see is still vivid in my memories after forty years. Uncle Furuya's pickle shop, Brother Hideo's kite, the time spent alone in the mountains, the snow-white naked body of a geisha accidentally encountered while bathing in a hot spring... These are all completely preserved in memory, and when recalled decades later, they still feel like they were yesterday. Hometown, fishing village, and broad bean fields have become an endless thread in Wen Quanzi's heart. There was the childhood in his memory, in the small town apartment with the fence with hibiscus, the gate with the ancient tiled roof, and the old camphor tree with the soaring flowers, that childhood with Silu Gu, Aixing, many generations... And also with the dolls, the drunken boy, the fish... All kinds of people and things passed through his life and then gradually faded away. Through the eyes of "I", the market is described as lively and uniquely warm, and the simplicity and meanness are combined with the diversity of living beings. This is the protagonist's innocent and warm childhood. See joy in peace, calm and soothing. Western lanterns, kelp, and unlined clothes, these are the warmth that shines through in one's bones. The poetry flowing in the blood becomes as quaint as the old house, making people yearn for it. Although this book describes children's life, it is not children's literature, it is written for adults. Like the Chinese "Old Things in the South of the City", it is not written by children themselves, but by an adult looking back on his childhood memories. The reason why I want to emphasize this point is that the interest conveyed in the article is a taste that has been experienced and examined. If there is childlike interest in it, then it is also the childlike interest of a thirty-six-year-old adult.

"Walden" is a collection of essays written by the famous American writer Thoreau, which records his thoughts while living in seclusion by Walden Pond for two years and two months. There, he embraced nature and lived a poetic life. He built a cabin with his own hands, reclaimed wasteland, planted in spring and harvested in autumn, talked with lakes, forests, and birds, played the flute on a boat, fished by the lake, and used a pen to describe the scenery on this land in detail, even as small as the fight between two ants, which was a wonderful stroke of poetry.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (1893-1930) was a famous Soviet poet, singer of the October Revolution, and the main founder of Soviet poetry. He lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, an era when the proletarian revolution was surging and victorious in the Soviet Union, establishing the world's first socialist country. He inherited and developed the excellent tradition of Russian poetry, and made bold explorations and fruitful innovations in poetry creation from ideological content to artistic form. He was a veritable "innovator Mayakovsky" (Lunacharsky said). His poetic art is unique and dazzling, and he has made significant contributions to the development of Soviet poetry and world poetry. This book discusses his poetry from the following aspects: comprehensive brief description, appreciation of famous works, special topic exploration, public opinion commentary, Chinese communication and historical positioning.

"Good Night, Russia" is the autobiography of Russian Nobel Prize winner, poet and writer Pasternak. Starting from his childhood, the author writes about his artistic family's interactions in the Moscow cultural circle, his interactions with famous literary and artistic figures, and his love for art and literature. The great tradition of Russian narrative literature gave him a magnificent and unique imagination, and his writing was poetic, profound and extremely charming.

This book is Gwen's memoir recording anecdotes about her life in Cambridge and her entire family. Due to family connections, the Gwen family's exchanges with the Cambridge elite are unique, fully presenting the era of "good old England". The language of this book is timeless, the style is distinctive, and it is full of intellectual humor and interest. The elegant, playful and innocent style that runs through the book is endlessly memorable despite its age.

This set includes: "American Notes" is a travelogue rich in literary and historical value. "Evening in Italy" is an overseas travelogue written by the British writer D. H. Lawrence in his youth, and it is also his most famous travelogue. Travels in France and Belgium is a collection of letters and notes written by Hugo during his travels in France and Belgium, as well as the Alps and Pyrenees. "Those Years with Kafka" contains Kafka's four travel diaries.

"Berlin Childhood" is a collection of essays by Benjamin, a famous German scholar and thinker, who re-examines his childhood life. Around 1900, the author experienced the urban life in Berlin, fragments of memory that flowed freely on that day, and pictures as beautiful as illustrations, like pearls scattered on the ground, shining with moving light in the dark night. Western critics hailed it as "one of the beautiful prose creations of our time."

The original novel of Kubrick's classic film "A Clockwork Orange" was selected into "Time" magazine's "Top 100 English Novels", unabridged version, brand new translation. "When you can't choose, you cease to be human." "A Clockwork Orange" is the representative work of British writer Anthony Burgess. The book uses genius imagination to describe the collision between freedom and power. It shocked the world as soon as it was published and spawned Kubrick's classic film of the same name. The novel's portrayal of lost youth and reflection on free will are of epoch-making significance in the history of literature. "A Clockwork Orange" has also become an important image written into popular culture. This new version of "A Clockwork Orange" is based on the unabridged translation of the British version. The new translation restores a smooth reading experience. Sincerely included: the first edition of the typescript of "A Clockwork Orange" (including the writer's handwriting), the exclusive long article of the British 50th anniversary edition, more than 50 original annotations, and the writer's precious article reviewing the novel and film "A Clockwork Orange Marmalade".

"Research on the Process of the Post-War World and the Process of Foreign Literature" (four volumes in total) uses post-war realist literature, post-modernist literature, contemporary foreign literature from the perspective of globalization, and the development trend of foreign literature in the new century as the framework structure to sort out the development of foreign literature in different periods from the perspective of history and aesthetics. On the basis of observing history On the subject, interpret literary phenomena with great influence, examine specific writers and works in a historical context, analyze and describe the complex relationship between the emergence, circulation, change and social existence of literature, comprehensively and three-dimensionally display the evolution of post-war foreign literature, and comprehensively and in-depth explore the development trends and characteristics of contemporary foreign literature. The fourth volume starts from the evolution and decline of postmodern literature at the end of the 20th century, and examines the evolution and influence of postmodern literature, focusing on literary narrative, historical writing and reconstruction, "9·11" literature, urban literature, Internet literature, ecological literature, and the diverse turns of world literature in the era of globalization. It uses different perspectives to examine the rhythm of foreign literature in the new century, and through discussions on hot issues, reveals the profound thematic implications and aesthetic values ​​contained in the diverse development trends of foreign literature in the new century.

"Research on the Process of the Post-War World and the Process of Foreign Literature" (four volumes in total) uses post-war realist literature, post-modernist literature, contemporary foreign literature from the perspective of globalization, and the development trend of foreign literature in the new century as the framework structure to sort out the development of foreign literature in different periods from the perspective of history and aesthetics. On the basis of observing history On the subject, interpret literary phenomena with great influence, examine specific writers and works in a historical context, analyze and describe the complex relationship between the emergence, circulation, change and social existence of literature, comprehensively and three-dimensionally display the evolution of post-war foreign literature, and comprehensively and in-depth explore the development trends and characteristics of contemporary foreign literature. The first volume theoretically constructs realism and analyzes the inherent paradox of realism's "reality fiction". Through detailed discussions of socialist realism, magical realism, subjective realism, structural realism, moral realism, conscious realism, neorealism, regional realism, modern realism, etc., It conducts a relatively systematic study of realist literature from various countries around the world, reveals the diverse development trends and rich connotations of post-war realism, and gains a new understanding of realism.

"Research on the Process of the Post-War World and the Process of Foreign Literature" (four volumes in total) uses post-war realist literature, post-modernist literature, contemporary foreign literature from the perspective of globalization, and the development trend of foreign literature in the new century as the framework structure to sort out the development of foreign literature in different periods from the perspective of history and aesthetics. On the basis of observing history On the subject, interpret literary phenomena with great influence, examine specific writers and works in a historical context, analyze and describe the complex relationship between the emergence, circulation, change and social existence of literature, comprehensively and three-dimensionally display the evolution of post-war foreign literature, and comprehensively and in-depth explore the development trends and characteristics of contemporary foreign literature. The third volume studies the presentation, reflection and criticism of the globalization process in foreign literature since the 1980s, analyzes the cultural dimensions of globalization, the relationship between globalization process and literature, globalization and world literature, etc. Starting from the starting point of theoretical concepts, it explores the regional characteristics and cross-border cultural integration inherent in foreign literature in the era of globalization. The localization of contemporary foreign literature in the process of global circulation has changed the paths and methods of cross-cultural exchanges. It not only reflects the historical process of globalization, but also participates in and affects this historical process. Globalization and literature are intertwined, forming the globalization of literature and the literariness of globalization.

"Research on the Process of the Post-War World and the Process of Foreign Literature" (four volumes in total) uses post-war realist literature, post-modernist literature, contemporary foreign literature from the perspective of globalization, and the development trend of foreign literature in the new century as the framework structure to sort out the development of foreign literature in different periods from the perspective of history and aesthetics. On the basis of observing history On the subject, interpret literary phenomena with great influence, examine specific writers and works in a historical context, analyze and describe the complex relationship between the emergence, circulation, change and social existence of literature, comprehensively and three-dimensionally display the evolution of post-war foreign literature, and comprehensively and in-depth explore the development trends and characteristics of contemporary foreign literature. The second volume is problem-oriented. It conducts theoretical explorations on issues such as what is postmodernism, the period division of postmodernist literature, whether postmodernist literature is political, and what kind of aesthetics and aesthetic principles postmodernism adheres to. It proposes new interpretations and reveals the experimental and experimental nature of the writing style of postmodernist literature. The two popular trends examine postmodern literature in the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Australia, Canada, Spain, Latin American countries, Japan and South Korea, describe the development process of postmodern literature in each country, and analyze its characteristics as an international literary phenomenon.

This book is Maugham's reading experience and experience. It contains his book list and his comments and reviews of European and American writers. It is a good reading guide.

"The Diary of Anne Frank" is the personal diary left by Anne Frank, a German-Jewish girl, during World War II. It truly records the two-year life that Anne's family and four other Jewish friends spent hiding in a "secret room" to escape Nazi persecution. As a growing girl, Anne observed the people and things around her from a unique perspective, and expressed her yearning for freedom and a better life. The diary demonstrates Anne's outstanding writing talent, and also triggers people's thoughts on war and human nature, as well as their love for the youth in the "secret room".

Travels in France and Belgium is a collection of letters and notes written by Hugo during his travels in France and Belgium, as well as the Alps and Pyrenees. The author traveled through famous cities and countryside, lingered in ancient buildings, churches and museums, explored countless castle ruins, and described the beautiful mountains and rivers, the morning light and the setting sun, the mist-filled valleys, and the rough sea. In these accounts, the poet Hugo presented the unparalleled magnificence of nature with his rich historical knowledge and cosmic awareness, extraordinary imagination and keen observation.

In 1930, fate arranged for the young archaeologist Max Mallowan to meet the then-famous Agatha Christie, but Agatha's fame did not prevent her from sharing her husband's work. She participated in every excavation that Max made in Syria and Iraq, sharing the joys and sorrows with him, constantly sifting through the various disasters that the archaeologists encountered. She loves her husband and has a keen interest in archeology. When her friends ask about her life in a foreign land, she decides to tell them the answer with this relaxing travelogue. This book was first published in 1946. It depicts the hardships and joys of the archaeological journey. From it, you can experience Agatha's unique charm, and you can also find the shadow of "Mystery of the Tomb" and "Date with Death".

In 1910, the British polar explorer Scott led the polar exploration team to set off from the United Kingdom to Antarctica on the "New Earth", trying to challenge the world's record of reaching the South Pole for the first time. After countless planning, repeated replenishment of supplies to the ice shed, and continuous trekking in the treacherous snow, the five-person team exploring the pole fell into the clutches of bad luck, bad weather, and mental breakdown in the final stage. In addition, they had to face the heavy blow from Norwegian explorer Amundsen and his party who had reached the South Pole first a month ago. In addition to grief, anger and pain, the five people embarked on a cursed return journey. In the end, they fell down one after another due to lack of physical strength and lack of fuel, and all died, which brought a heroic end to this extreme competition. The supply team who had returned to base earlier returned to New Zealand in 1913. Sherry Garrard, the youngest member of the expedition, published this classic masterpiece of polar exploration in 1922, allowing the world to witness the most famous tragic event in the history of exploration.

Paying homage to his hometown, Scarpa uses poetic and evocative language to lead readers along alleys, over bridges, and through squares, encouraging us to boldly get lost, forget the guidebooks, and experience Venice like a Venetian.

The editor compiled it from the works of many famous Spanish literary figures according to themes such as "love", "death", "eyes", "voice", "dream" and "night". This is a book suitable for reading in the night that is as silent as eternity. They have "the melody of the harp, the melody of the flute, the melody of the violin, the melody of the flowing water, the melody of the woman's mouth..."

How did a family governed by inaction create a wise and interesting novelist? A Barnes-esque autobiography, candid, poignant and humorous. "Nothing to Fear" is an exploration of family memories and a recollection of the creative and ideological process. Reading this work, you can get a glimpse of the prototype of all of Barnes' classic works. "My brother questions the fundamental authenticity of memory, and I question the way we render memory." "Nothing to Fear" is Barnes's family memoir. It not only contains the conceptual confrontation between him and his brother, who is a professor of philosophy, but also an exploration of the family's past. It is not only a sorting and recollection of his thoughts on death and immortality, God and self, time and memory, but also a collective tribute to the writers and artists he admires. Although Barnes solemnly warns readers that "this is not my autobiography," this work still presents us with the ideological context of the author's creative career, from which we can clearly identify the shadows of all classic works such as "Flaubert's Parrot", "The Sense of the End", and "The Noise of Time".

"The Myth of Sisyphus" is one of the representative works of Camus, the French literary master of absurd existential philosophy. It is Camus' in-depth and concentrated investigation and thorough and clear explanation of the philosophy of absurdity. Sisyphus, a Greek mythological figure who pushes rocks up mountains and performs never-ending hard labor, is undoubtedly a symbol of the absurdity of human existence; but at the same time, he is also a sign that human beings do not despair or despair, but rise up to resist in the midst of absurdity, and do not hesitate to fight against absurd fate to the end. Therefore, "The Myth of Sisyphus" is not so much a tragic self-portrait of the human condition as it is a victory song of liberal humanism. It constitutes a style that is both pathos and sublime. In the entire field of human culture and art, perhaps only Beethoven's "Symphony of Destiny" can rival it in taste.

This book contains a selection of simple and beautiful classic essays by eight masters of natural literature, including Gilbert White, Henry Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and Aldo Leopold. Open the title page, and eight simple and straightforward guides appear one by one, taking you from the sparkling Walden Pond to the sandy ranches with fluttering birds, from the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California in midsummer to Cape Cod in the Atlantic Ocean on thundery nights. They will listen to squirrels scurrying on the branches and watch salmon swimming at the bottom of the creek. Returning from the hustle and bustle of the city to all living things, using the sun and moon as friends, drinking with the heaven and earth, and using an unforgettable dream-like journey to leave a glimpse of the tranquil and vibrant natural spring in the bottom of your heart.

This book contains a selection of "lonely" works by twenty-six famous masters from the East and West, including Nietzsche, Hesse, Thoreau, Goethe, Kafka, Schopenhauer, and Tagore. The genres of the selected articles are diverse and eclectic; the writing styles are colorful and brilliant, some are concise and concise, some are obscure and weird, some are simple and casual, some are sonorous and passionate. Here, loneliness means asking for but not getting it, losing the one you love forever, being in a foreign land, and taking off the disguise; all kinds of loneliness are both terrible and respectable, hateful and amiable. Each one is derived from the author's unique vision; between the lines, the fearless pursuit of "independence" and the immortal response to "I" by centuries of ideal intellectuals are revealed.

"Elegant Madness" is the masterpiece of Basbain, a master of Western calligraphy, and an immortal classic of Western calligraphy in the 20th century. It is not only rich in content, spanning ancient and modern times, but also vast in length and grand in layout. It tells the story of more than 100 book-collecting yuppies over the past 2,500 years, their persistent pursuit of books, the most elegant and precious thing in the world, the thrilling rare book auctions, the breathtaking anecdotes, the lingering and meaningful stories of book lovers... The book is full of all kinds of strange, strange, but attractive book lovers, and each one is better than the last. Passion and vicissitudes go hand in hand, elegance and madness dance together, just because of human beings' eternal love for books.

Diaries are often the best way to analyze a person's innermost thoughts and explore one's "soul moments", and this collection of essays is not limited to diaries, but brings together a variety of genres to truly present Whitman's life for you.

Dickinson is one of the three greatest literary figures in the United States. She stayed away from the hustle and bustle of the world, only for the tranquility in her heart; only because of her self-indulgence did she write passionate poetry. She didn't go out often but could feel the whole world. Whether it is the lyricism of poetry or the correspondence between friends, they are all full of charm, sentimentality and passion.

There are all kinds of diseases in life, but bibliophilia is the only one that cannot be cured; a guide to relief for those who are addicted to books; a darkly humorous confession of a hopeless bibliophile; a new edition is coming. The author of "Bibliophile Addict" uses humorous writing to describe his obsession with searching, reading and collecting books, and lists out various symptoms of book lovers one by one. It makes us not only smile knowingly, but also marvel in admiration. In a relaxed and easy way, the author takes us back to the history and style of books, the various forms of bookworms, various manifestations of collecting addiction, and various types of book buyers. It is full of fun and unique flavor.

"A Woman" is composed of 97 sections. Each section is of different lengths, ranging from thousands of words to just one sentence. The 97 sections adopt a method similar to the "fugue" or "canon" in music. Different voices repeatedly sing the same theme alternately. The beginning of each section is "There is a woman," followed by "she loves me", "she hates me", "love" and "hate" alternately. These descriptions show the diversity of women and relationships between men and women, including the experience of love and conflicts between the sexes, as well as passionate games and fragments of self-awareness. With dazzling writing style and extensive knowledge, the author Esterhazy explores this eternal topic incisively and calmly, providing an unexpected and fresh perspective on this topic. The author's writing style is exquisite and elegant, fully demonstrating the author's language skills and profound insight.

A self-selected collection of academic essays by Cao Weidong, the ferryman who brought Chinese and German thought and culture closer to each other. Trace the evolution of the Frankfurt School and draw a picture of the thinking of critical theory of modern German society. In "Interculturality: Memory and Reflection", under the category of "modernity", the author discusses how my country's literary and artistic disciplines and cultural leadership should be rebuilt, how the university spirit and university academic evaluation system should be constructed, and other issues, as well as the issues faced by European society in terms of group self-identity, legal and cultural education system design in the process of moving towards modernity. In addition to these topics, the author also compiled and collected his representative reading notes, current affairs reviews and literary criticism in recent years.

Fromm's classic work, author of "The Art of Love" and "Escape from Freedom" and one of the founders of "Psychoanalytic Sociology", is How a Gentleman with Faith Says "No". Whether mankind has a future and whether civilization will end depends on whether we have the ability to doubt, criticize and disobey. --Erich Fromm In the collection "On Disobedience", Erich Fromm clearly explained what "obedience" and "disobedience" really mean: obedience to human nature and the goals of a humane society, and disobedience to various idols and political ideologies. His discussion is still relevant today: he opposes blindly following conventions and takes a critical stance on the commonplace "bad knowledge". Fromm's insights, combined with the psychology gained from social and political phenomena, led him to support the American Socialist Party for a period of time, join the peace movement, and call for disarmament steps. In these activities, he practiced his disobedience to the "common sense" of various people and official political discourse. What he obeyed was a sane way of thinking, which was in line with the ideas held by prophets and philosophers such as Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell.

This book is a record of British explorer Richard F. Burton's nearly three years of travel in the Lake District of Central Africa in the 1850s. Under the leadership of the Royal Geographical Society, Burton and John Speke set out from Zanzibar on the east coast of Africa and headed west to the hinterland of Africa to find the source of the Nile River. In the book, Burton describes the customs and customs of Central Africa in great detail, including the local indigenous races, religions, forms of government, slavery, rural life, house architecture, folk customs, medicine, animals and plants, etc. The style of writing is real and not pretentious. It not only provides a wealth of knowledge, but also presents the most authentic features of Africa.

In 2012, Sylvain Thizon and his literary travel companions were once again tired of urban life and longed for a trip. This year marks the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's defeat in the Russo-French War and the disastrous Battle of the Berezina River. Taison and his friends came up with the idea of ​​riding a motorcycle back to Paris from Moscow: retracing the retreat of Napoleon's army. So, in a snowy December, five friends (three French and two Russians) bought three second-hand Ural three-wheel heavy motorcycles produced in the Soviet Union and hit the road with books related to the Russo-French War.

This book was originally an untitled manuscript written by Hemingway in Cuba after returning from a safari in East Africa from 1953 to 1954. The writing process was interrupted several times and was ultimately not completed. In 1999, the 800-page manuscript was compiled and published by his son Patrick on the occasion of the centenary of Hemingway's birth. Hemingway's close friend "Old Man" was a legendary hunter who asked Hemingway to take over the safari camp after Hemingway came to Africa for the second time. At this time, tensions were rising among the several tribes, and it was rumored that a group of Kamba people who had escaped detention and sworn to join the Mau Mau movement were threatening to attack Hemingway's camp. Hemingway, on the one hand, shoulders the responsibilities of a leader, and on the other hand, he has to help his wife hunt down a lion before Christmas. In Africa, what is real at first light becomes an illusion by midday. Later, the attack that the Kamba people claimed to launch dissipated like the morning mist illuminated by the dawn.

French explorer Sylvain Tison once promised to live a secluded life deep in the forest before he was forty years old. So he lived for six months in a Siberian cabin on the northern Cape of Cedar on the shores of Lake Baikal. The nearest village is a hundred and twenty kilometers away, with no neighbors and the occasional strange visitor. In winter, the temperature drops to minus 30 degrees Celsius; in summer, bears appear on the steep slopes of the lake shore. He brought books, cigars and vodka, and created a simple and beautiful life in this wilderness. Time was reduced to a few simple actions: facing the lake and forest, watching the days go by; chopping wood, fishing, cooking; reading a lot; walking in the mountains; drinking vodka in front of the window.