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Galsworthy is famous for his novels, and his prose is also widely praised; his subject matter is rich, his vision is broad, and his narrative is eclectic. This book contains several sketches and memories of characters and landscapes, literary essays, prefaces and postscripts, and letter slips. Some of the works in the book use implicit brushwork and lyrical tones to reproduce the characters' personalities and outline portraits; others focus on rendering a certain artistic conception.

"Voyage to the East" written by Hermann Hesse tells the story that Hermann Hesse had a temple of Eastern culture in his heart. It not only displays his unique insights into oriental literature, painting, and religion, mainly represented by China and India, but also engraved with the oriental scenes he painted with satirical stories, fairy tales, and fables. But whether he is trying to clarify the intricate relationship between Buddhism, Brahmanism and Hinduism, or telling the story of a king with an "Indian life trajectory" in a very folklore-like way, he without exception expresses the theme that runs through his life of creation: individuals strive to achieve the harmonious unity of divided selves in the process of actively seeking their true self.

"Stalker: The Ultimate Journey into Cinema" is a film essay by British writer Jeff Dyer. In this work, he successfully restored every scene of the film "Stalker" by the master of film art Tarkovsky in words, and conducted an in-depth and detailed interpretation of the metaphors and symbols contained in it. At the same time, as a die-hard Tarkovsky fan, Jeff Dyer told readers some interesting anecdotes about the filming of the film, as well as his own feelings watching the film when he was young. These memories and associations induced by "Stalker" enrich the originally serious film text. Jeff Dyer's witty and thought-provoking writing guides many readers interested in Tasha and "Stalker" on a very enjoyable journey of cinematic exploration.

"To the Indian Subcontinent" written by Hermann Hesse tells the story of Hermann Hesse, who has admired Eastern culture all his life and finally came to Asia. The steaming mainland of Southeast Asia. The mixed life of the colony made him marvel again and again. Hesse was in awe of the vastness of the primeval rainforest. He was also shocked by the picture of coolies working in the forest; he not only praised the Chinese, Indonesians, and Malays in Southeast Asia for not contracting modern Western diseases, but also despised their poor and blind imitation of European colonists. The ancient philosophy drawn from the literature is mixed with the experiences during travel, giving these travel essays a unique look and re-outlining the Eastern world in Hesse's eyes.

The third part of Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul's masterpiece "India Trilogy": India dies of faith and is resurrected by faith. The third volume of the "India Trilogy", the representative work of Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul, is also the most profound and fair work written by the passionate and controversial V. S. Naipaul about India. V. S. Naipaul came to India for the third time. Taking Mumbai as the center, Naipaul closely observed all aspects of Indian society: cities and villages, religions and castes, priests and politicians, writers and gangsters... This time, the passionate writing gave way to calm descriptions, and the free judgment gave way to the original history. Naipaul positioned himself as a calm listener and spectator, a person who recorded the voice of the Indian people, and then created this simple but extremely profound "oral record".

The second part of Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul's masterpiece "India Trilogy": How Indian Civilization Devoured Itself. The second volume of the "India Trilogy", the representative work of Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul, is also the book in which Naipaul is most anxious about observing and writing about India. Naipaul's second visit to India coincided with the climax of Mrs. Gandhi's declaration of the "Emergency". Different from the shock, anger, shame and loss he felt for the first time ("Dark Country"), this time he went deep behind the "chaos" and tried to touch the lost soul and body of civilization: India's crisis lies not only in politics and economy, but also in that as an "already defeated country", India has just entered another dark age from one dark age. India has devoured its own civilization, produced garbage in garbage, and created ruins in ruins. The people can actually live with peace of mind.

The first part of the "India Trilogy", the masterpiece by Nobel Prize winner V. S. Naipaul: India belongs to memory, a world that has died. "The most undisputed winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in the 21st century" V. S. Naipaul's classic masterpiece, the first part of the "Indian Trilogy". Naipaul returned to India, his native country, as a foreigner, but was shocked to find that this dark country only belonged to memory and belonged to a dead world. Naipaul landed from Bombay, passed through Delhi, Calcutta, and Kashmir, and finally came to his grandfather's hometown. This foreigner and passer-by with an ambiguous identity saw poverty and ugliness everywhere, and felt shock, anger, and loss. In Naipaul's consistent laughter, curses and aloofness, the chaos displayed in this dark country in the post-colonial situation makes people feel so helpless and desperate!

"Collected Essays of Bacon" was published in 1597. Although it is not large in length, it is rich in connotation and can be regarded as a small encyclopedia of life. The works involve politics, economy, religion, love, marriage, friendship, art, education, ethics and many other aspects, touching almost every corner of human life. After "The Essays of Bacon" was first published in the UK, it became very popular because of its interesting and meaningful aphorisms. It has been reprinted many times and has been translated into almost every language in the world. It has not declined after more than 400 years. Together with "The Essays of Montaigne" and "The Thoughts of Pascal", it is known as the three classics of modern European philosophical prose. This book is the essence of Bacon's thoughts for most of his life. It exudes strong charm and attracts generations of people.

Collection of fairy tales and poems by Japan's Hans Christian Andersen and national fairy tale poet Miyazawa Kenji. Selected are Kenji Miyazawa's classic fairy tales such as "Night on the Galaxy Railway" and "The Life of Budori", as well as famous poems such as "Without Fear of Wind and Rain". After the March 11 earthquake in Japan, Kenji Miyazawa became a spiritual indicator of Japan's revival, and animations and movies adapted from his works emerged one after another. The animals and people in Miyazawa Kenji's works, although weak and humble, are bullied, but they also live very hard and are not afraid of sacrifice for the happiness of everyone. Miyazawa Kenji does not hesitate to burn himself but also illuminates the tenderness and determination of everyone, so that he can still give people the power to survive today, a hundred years later.

A biographical literary work about the true friendship between Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth. Ostend is located on the west coast of Belgium and is a famous resort and health resort in Europe. On the eve of World War II, fascism prevailed in Europe, and in the summer of 1936 before darkness fell, many exiled writers, publishers, artists, and intellectuals who were persecuted by the German Nazis gathered in Ostend, forming a unique cultural circle of exiled writers, who continued to create before darkness fell. "Ostend 1936", in the form of a memoir and novel, focuses on the real-life friendship between Stefan Zweig and Joseph Roth, two well-known novelists in the literary world who were exiled here at the time. The book also intersperses other writers such as Ernst Toller. Looking back on their years in exile, they recount their love and hope, pain and despair. This is a great story about love and friendship.

On October 28, 2011, at the age of 54, I underwent six and a half hours of heart surgery to replace my original valve with an artificial one and also had a heart bypass. Without this surgery, I would have died of a coronary aneurysm and heart failure 10 months later. My purpose in writing this book is to encourage people, especially men, to get their hearts checked. Many people don't even know they have heart disease and lose their lives in this mysterious way. Men are particularly unwilling to pay attention to health issues, and are not as good as women in this regard. In addition, this book also mentions music and describes the magical healing properties of melody. This is not only a record of my own "mental journey", but also a record of my story with music. I have had the privilege of knowing some great musicians over the years, several of whom have played a pivotal role in my life.

The 200,000-word full translation of The Jungle Book. The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Kipling is comparable to the reading experience of "Harry Potter", a master work of children's literature, and the original story of the movie "The Jungle Book". Tell stories about courage, responsibility, rules, wisdom and love.

Every creature that can walk, breathe, and process information rationally has its own constantly updated story, with positive or negative, rational or irrational conclusions. We can make the most amazing progress in life, and inspiration often comes to us. However, we are all mortals with shortcomings, played by fate, lacking passion, and often serving selfish interests until we have nothing left. Stephen Clark Bradley traveled to 35 countries over 17 years, including Pakistan, Iraq, Turkey and West Africa. He is such a piece of living history. He is an ordinary and extraordinary person. He is a preacher, a teacher, a homeless person, a writer, a politician, a traveler around the world, and the smartest fool.

Selected Essays of Churchill. Churchill was not only an outstanding politician, but also an accomplished writer. His historical works and biographies have become classics. As a stylist himself, Churchill believed that a good story would have its own impact; he preferred candor to circumlocution and unnecessary embellishment. His metaphors are few but expressive.

This book is a collection of essays by American writer Sinclair Lewis. Sinclair Lewis was the first American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. He created a truly American style. The first half of the twentieth century was the so-called "golden age" of the United States. Like adolescence, people are hopeful and restless at the same time. Sinclair Lewis used his steady pen to provide rich descriptions of all strata of this healthy and progressive New World society.

When I was in my mid-twenties, I suddenly gave up my life as a magazine editor in the metropolis Tokyo and came to a small island on the edge of the Sea of ​​Japan to learn a traditional craft - lacquer art - from scratch. Another period of Akagi Minden's life began. This book is an autobiographical essay by Akito Akagi, who has become a lacquer artist and has gained a certain status in the field of arts and crafts, looking back on his artistic journey. The work completely records the process of a layman coming into contact with lacquerware for the first time and finally creating a unique work. In the process of becoming a master, the author examines the contemporary value of lacquer art, a traditional craft, and involves the eternal proposition of the aesthetics and practicality of art. More importantly, it records the change in the author's mentality when he resigned from a stable workplace and entered the art field, and explored personal freedom in the improvement of skills.

This is a book similar to "Cai Gen Tan". The book does not have a main thread throughout, but is just a series of sketches full of philosophy, covering various aspects such as nature, art, cultivation, life and even business management. Although it does not have a fixed theme, its goal is clear, which is to tell people how to live happily. Reading this book feels a bit like watching the program "One Day in the Life" of CCTV Documentary Channel. Sometimes it talks about Dubai, sometimes it talks about the Philippines, sometimes it talks about the relationship between father and son, sometimes it talks about cheese and gourmet food. Things that seem to have no connection at all, but there is the same touch. In short, its focus is not on statements, but on feelings, and then the most important thing in ethics is also the most important - knowing and doing.

The theme of Wakayama Makui's works is to praise natural beauty, journey, love and wine. The entire "Trees and Leaves" series consists of 37 tankas and prose articles of different lengths. Among them, articles that are more representative (natural beauty and journey) and have shorter tanka or haiku lengths were selected to form a collection of essays. The brushwork is fresh and the description of the scenery is poetic and picturesque.

These ten rambler's reveries are the product of Rousseau's dialogue with his own heart and an analysis of his own soul. Rousseau's ideas of promoting feelings, praising oneself, and loving nature are vividly displayed. Moreover, through its own power, it has cleansed countless despicable souls in secular society. This stroll is not only a physical stroll, but also a spiritual stroll, and it is also a literary stroll.

There are lively hares, singing nightingales, dense ash forests, and returning rooks in "The Wild Things of Wiltshire." The wild creatures of Wiltshire's countryside are vibrant and lively. Jeffreys uses a wonderful pen to depict a fascinating British rural style painting. In his writings, rural life in England in the 19th century was simple and rough, and the animals and plants in the countryside were full of vitality and joy. He used exquisite words and extensive knowledge to present this joy to readers, allowing people to enjoy the tranquility, vitality, and tolerance of nature while reading.

If there was a profession called a reader in the world, no one would be more suitable than Maugham. It seems natural that writers love reading, but like Somerset Maugham, he followed the chart, from the writer's works to the writer's life and character, and then turned around from their life and character to care about the writer's work, and wrote a wonderful collection of essays based on this, which is also a rare thing in the history of literature. This is a book of gossip by a master, and also a book of Maugham's insights into reading and philosophy. The spicy secrets and interesting humanity of the literary giant, Jane Austen's kind "meanness", Stendhal's inner inferiority, Flaubert's first love on the beach in childhood, Leo Tolstoy's confusion and confession in his life, Dostoyevsky's betrayal...

Chandler can be described as the master of American "hard-boiled" detective novels. Just as the young United States took over the scepter of hegemony from the aging British Empire, Chandler's tall, handsome, rebellious and tender private detective Marlowe also officially replaced Sherlock Holmes and became the most popular detective image in novels and even on the screen. To this day, the tough guys who appear in various Hollywood blockbusters are more or less Marlowe's descendants. In the five essays and many long letters included in this book, Chandler puts aside his familiar gangster slang and street slang for the time being, and uses rational and objective writing and extremely rigorous logic to present his "tough guy" concept clearly and transparently to readers. No one's argument is more convincing than Chandler's. While showing off his demeanor as an orator, Chandler still never forgets to use his signature dry humor to remind us that he is indeed the creator of Marlowe.

This book is a collection of Eco's essays. The author selected 140 essays from his "Minerva Matchbox" column in Express Weekly. It is divided into eight parts. The writing style is wild and the content is all-encompassing, from current affairs and politics to literature and art, from environmental protection to emerging technologies. The writing style is light and humorous, and it is full of ridicule and satire. The title of the book comes from a small paper box containing "Minerva" brand matches. The author is used to recording short essays or flashes of inspiration on the back of the cover of the box. Each article is about 2,000 words in length, short and concise, with eye-catching titles such as "Attention: This article is pure nonsense", "The first task of intellectuals: shut up when you are powerless", "Gossip was serious" and other eye-catching titles. The author shows keen insight and unique insights. With calm and sharp writing, he interprets this world full of contradictions and uneasiness from a new perspective, which makes people laugh and make people think.

"The Myth of Sisyphus" is one of the masterpieces of Camus, the French existentialist master. It is Camus's most in-depth and concentrated investigation and most 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 the most vivid symbol of the absurdity of human existence; but at the same time, he is also a great example for human beings to not despair or be depressed, but to rise up against absurdity and 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 is a collection of original foreign micro-novel translations by Mr. Zhang Baihua, an experienced translator with an interesting translation style. From her several years of translation practice, she selected 36 humorous translations and published them in Chinese and English. Among them are "Enemy", "Animal School" and "Emotional Island" with profound meanings, "Deal" and "Love Potion" which are full of suspense, and there are also ironic "Women Need Wifes Too" and so on. These short and concise translations are thought-provoking and touching the soul. They are rare literary sketches. They allow us, living in the bustling world, to stop and think about issues such as hatred, emotion, education, value, appropriation and giving.

This book is a bilingual book in Chinese and English. The exquisite stories, interesting translations, and authentic English allow readers to not only appreciate the richness and complexity of human nature in the micro-novel, but also to deeply appreciate the unique expressions and artistic beauty of the English language. It is a must-read for literature lovers and English learners. "Time Will Not Let Down the Loved One (Bilingual in Chinese and English)" selects dozens of tender stories between people, allowing you to recall the emotions in life that touch your heart between the lines.

"Life is an Unexpected Encounter (Bilingual in Chinese and English)" written by Aziz Nessin is a bilingual book in Chinese and English. The exquisite stories, interesting translations, and authentic English allow readers to not only appreciate the richness and complexity of human nature in the micro-novel, but also to deeply appreciate the unique expressions and artistic beauty of the English language. It is a must-read for literature lovers and English learners. This book selects dozens of stories that shed light on human nature, are ingenious and humorous, making you unable to help but smile while reading in a relaxed and graceful way.

"Gitanjali", "Crescent Moon Collection", "Bird Collection", these are the well-known poet Rabindranath Tagore. But this time, he may have another identity: a walker, a recorder, and a thinker. Britain, Russia, Japan, China... Tagore's footprints are scattered all over Asia and Europe. He used letters, diaries and speeches to clearly describe the process of traveling to various places. In his travel notes, he profoundly expressed the differences and connections between national culture and foreign culture, and the East and the West.

Italy is a profound and profound historical gift, which constitutes the most romantic imaginary symbol in people's hearts. It is a world-famous elegant monument and a stunning artistic genius, but it is also a chaotic river flowing under the weak moonlight. This book is a notebook of Henry James's experiences during his many visits to Italy. Following the author through the dim and hazy passage of thoughts and feelings, a huge painting of the natural landscape and humanistic features of Italy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries will slowly unfold in front of the reader, and Italy as time passes is its most authentic appearance.

This book is a collection of essays by the famous French writer Anatole France. In 1921, France was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized by nobility of style, profound human sympathy, elegance and a truly Gallic temperament". France's "erudite, fanciful, lucid and charming style, and the magical effect of his blend of irony and enthusiasm" still fascinate today's readers.

Prishvin went deep into the ancient Russian northern forests, hiked the land, and went in and out of the forests, taking integration into nature as "the key to literature." This book selects representative prose passages from Purish, which are rich in biological knowledge, beautiful descriptions of nature, and touching love and kindness.

Tokutomi Ashika's prose is a model for describing nature and life, and has become a good teaching material for Japan's aesthetic education for its citizens. In Lu Hua's works, the natural world on which human beings live is always vibrant and full of vitality. The colorful Fuji dawn, the vast expanse of Sagami Beach, the strange and changeable flying clouds of Fragrant Mountain, the misty and confusing Hanazuki autumn evening... These natural scenes, once touched by the author's wonderful pen, are all full of interest and fascinating.

Select representative chapters from "Insects", which is a literary work rich in knowledge, interesting beauty and philosophy. Its writing is fresh, natural and interesting, its tone is relaxed and humorous, and its fact-based storyline has twists and turns. The author integrates the colorful life of insects with his own life insights, and looks at insects with human nature.

It contains Gibran's nine representative collections of prose poems, covering love and beauty, nature, philosophy of life, etc. It contains rich sociality and oriental spirit, does not focus on plot, and aims to express rich emotions. Gibran, Lu Xun and Rabindranath Tagore were the pioneers of modern Oriental literature going global.

Collecting Gissing's masterpieces of prose, this book is divided into four parts: spring, summer, autumn and winter. It describes the life of the hermit Rycroft who was obsessed with books, natural scenery and reminiscing about the past. The writing style is beautiful and the prose is fluent. It is one of the treasures of short essays in British literature.

The book includes prose works describing animals and plants in nature. Jules Renard's descriptions have their own uniqueness. When he writes about animals, he focuses on the special moods of various animals at a moment. They are solemn when they are still, and they change extremely quickly when they move. It is not a line of poetry, but it is filled with a rich poetic atmosphere.

The work provides vivid and anthropomorphic descriptions of lions, tigers, bears, dogs, wolves, foxes, etc., Which are lively and interesting. In addition, the famous French sentences "The article is like the person" and "Style is the person" are derived from "Style is personal" in his famous lecture "On Style".

This book collects Turgenev's representative prose works. With Turgenev's graceful narration, Russia's natural scenery, the customs and habits of the Russian people, the bullying of farmers by landlords, and the kindness, simplicity and wisdom of farmers slowly flow out in front of us like lyrical songs, converging into a colorful and touching symphonic poem.

"I Never Saw the Wilderness" contains the most representative poems and letters of the American poet Emily Dickinson, and was translated with great concentration by the famous translator Bullon. Dickinson is one of the pioneers of modern poetry in the twentieth century, and is as famous as Whitman among American poets. He wrote more than 1,800 poems and a large number of personal letters during his lifetime. The poetic style is concentrated and refined, abandoning traditional rhythm and punctuation, and making good use of synesthesia. Only a dozen of these poems were published during her lifetime, and the rest were published and made known to the world only after her death.

"Holidays with Proust" is the reflections of eight scholars on reading Proust's novels. It is divided into eight chapters: "Time", "Characters", "Social World", "Love", "Imaginary Things", "Place", "Proust and the Philosopher" and "Art". It is easy to understand and fascinating. It also comes with a synopsis and highlights of "In Search of Lost Time", which is definitely a feast for Proust lovers.

A book highly recommended by former U. S. President Obama, a winner of the National Book Award, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a touching letter to his son. It writes about the love between father and son, reveals racial discrimination, and understands the American dream. This is a candid letter written by black writer Thanasis Coates as a father to his son. Through beautiful words, he describes the endless fear he felt as a boy in a seemingly peaceful country. With its sharp writing style, mixed writing style, and philosophical and poetic language, this book reveals the harsh reality of racial discrimination in today's American society. It has had a huge impact and won the 2015 National Book Award for Best Nonfiction. The author starts from the harm of racial discrimination to black bodies (lives), describes the personal experience of being a black man, and emphasizes that racial discrimination in the United States has a long history, is deeply rooted, and will continue to persist. The work's incisive analysis of this social phenomenon made it a blockbuster work on the topic of race in the United States in a short period of time. This book is also an analysis of the grand issues in the country's history, pointing out to readers that "the American dream is the enemy of all art, brave thinking, and honest writing."

In his later years, Rousseau revisited the past and examined his life. "The Reveries of the Lonely Walker" is his defense of himself. Together with "Confessions" and "Dialogue: Rousseau Comments on Jean-Jacques", it is called the "Rousseau Autobiography Trilogy". These ten rambler's reveries reveal Rousseau's thoughts of admiring feelings, praising oneself, and loving nature.

"Letter to Mother" describes the letters written by Saint-Exupery between 1910 and 1944. It is the most beautiful text and reveals a side of Saint-Exupéry that few people know.

This is a collection of essays by Margaret Duras in her later years, published in 1993. Although the title is "Writing", it is not limited to writing itself. The writer's memories and feelings: loneliness, alcohol, lovers, living alone in a country house, movies, and even his love for his younger brother are all integrated into it. The book contains five short stories, namely "Writing", "The Death of the Young British Pilot", "Rome", "Pure Numbers" and "Painting Exhibition".

The National Book Award winner's work records the deep love between a father and his son who suffers from Alzheimer's disease and is a best-seller that moved the entire United States. Parents may forget themselves, but they will never forget you. Serious illness is a test for us and also our last chance to love our parents. This is a book about fathers, but also a book about psychological healing. Father: A well-known neurologist who was deeply troubled by Alzheimer's disease in his later years. Son: Winner of the National Book Award, he vividly records his father's later years. In this way, the father and son reveal, step by step, a patient's desire for family affection, nostalgia for memories, helplessness against the disease, and struggle for life in the later stages of his life.

It begins with a special suicide mission and narrates the author's trivial memories during World War II. The protagonist looks forward to dawn in the dark night, falls into despair and yearns for life again in the midst of gunfire, and finally finds his own identity in the bright starry sky - human value is never innate, but acquired through hard work. And blessing individualistic sacrifices is a norm that civilization imposes on everyone.

World literature is an incomparably rich treasure house. It is so rich that we often feel like we don't know where to start reading. Hesse's book was written as an introduction to reading world masterpieces. Hesse is an excellent writer, possessing a writer's inherent and deeply human wisdom. He is also a good reader and a well-read person. It is most appropriate for him to write such a book. He writes books and loves books, so he knows the charm of books best. He does not act as a scholar, but uses his free writing style and trustworthy knowledge to express his views on world famous books. In this book, readers can taste the entire style of world literature and at the same time develop a key to unlock world literature.

It is a collection of reading essays written by Maugham at the invitation of the "Saturday Evening Post", aiming to provide reading suggestions for readers at that time. Maugham used the special talent of a novelist to paint simple and vivid portraits of his great writers, and encouraged readers to read for pleasure. Although the book is not long, it is full of insights and is worth reading again and again.

A hilarious story about living with a parrot! One person and three birds live under the same roof, and magical and embarrassing things happen every day. The colorful parrots are not only beautiful to look at, but also very arrogant and fun! If you want to keep a parrot, this book will definitely help you.

"Oshu Trail: Japanese-Chinese Comparison (Bilingual Translation)" is a travelogue written by Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), a famous Japanese haiku poet and known as the haiku sage in Japan. It is not only known as the highest level of travel writing among Japanese classical literature, but also the pinnacle of Matsuo Basho's literature. On May 16, 1889 (March 27 in the old calendar), the 46-year-old Matsuo Basho and his disciple Kawai Soryo set out from the Tea Tea Hermitage in Fukagawa, Edo (now Tokyo), to travel to the Tohoku and Hokuriku regions of Japan, which lasted about 150 days. "Oshu Trail" is a travel diary of this journey. Matsuo Basho recorded what he saw and heard during the journey with delicate writing and real feelings, and created a large number of famous haiku.