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In this book, the three protagonists who were "in the same boat" on the Thames River began a bicycle trip in Germany. The book still describes Bummel's journey in a humorous tone. Because of the interesting introduction to German customs and customs at that time, this book has been used as a teaching material in German schools all year round. This book was published in 1900, when bicycles were popular among London's middle classes. The book introduces the bicycle brand competition, advertising, and bicycle enthusiasts' enthusiasm for equipment at that time. It still resonates when I read it today.

"Essays of Bacon" can be said to be one of the few "world books". This book is not written for one country, but for the whole world; it is not written for one era, but for all eras. In this book, extremely high intelligence and diverse interests and sympathies are naturally combined into one, so everyone in the world, no matter what type or temperament, can find something in this book to connect with themselves. Although this is just a collection of essays, "Bacon's Essays" can make you feel like reading a history book, a collection of poems, and a textbook at the same time. Bacon's words not only broaden people's horizons, but also make them enlightened.

"Anne's Diary" is written by a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl. In order to escape the persecution of the German Nazi Party, Anne's family was forced to move to a secret cabin in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During the more than two years of hiding in darkness, Anne used her optimistic spirit, national pride and longing for life and love to spend the painful and depressing days. This diary is a record of the author's life and emotions while hiding in a secret room two years before his death. As a growing teenager, she confided in her diary the confusion of constant conflicts with her mother and her sexual curiosity. At the same time, it records 25 months of life in a secret room, vividly showing the hardships of life in a secret room and people's fears during the war.

Like any artist, I hoped to build a small world in this traumatic and clumsy world through all kinds of beautiful, joyful and meaningful things, and use my own insights to show a true Ireland to any compatriots who heard my call and looked over. Therefore, I faithfully and honestly recorded what I saw and heard. Apart from some words of emotion, I never made any assumptions.

Reading classics will give you a good reading enjoyment. In reading, start to appreciate other people's lives, and at the same time start planning your own life. The selected articles in "Foreign Prose Classics Must-Read in a Lifetime" edited by Li Chao not only emphasize profundity and philosophy, but also emphasize readability and interest, so they can be read smoothly without any sense of obscurity. It will become a beautiful youthful memory of reading for most teenagers, because while reading classics, you will also have a good start in reading about the world.

A classic of love that penetrates the human heart, a literary masterpiece that perfectly interprets love! J. K. Rowling's favorite writer - the most popular of the prose works of the famous British litterateur C. S. Lewis. Love is the eternal theme of mankind, and it is the only way for you and me to understand, tolerate and help each other. In this book, C. S. Lewis uses his rich life experience, wise insight and thick and beautiful writing power to deeply analyze the various virtues and shortcomings of love, broaden our horizons, comprehensively explore love, and reveal the true meaning of love.

William Butler Yeats is a famous Irish poet, playwright and essayist. He is also one of the greatest modern poets in the English-speaking world. He is the winner of the Gothenburg Poetry Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yeats created richly throughout his life and was deeply influenced by romanticism, aestheticism, mysticism and symbolism. The collection of essays "The Tree of Life" reflects his many influences from Shelley's poetry, Blake's romanticism, Irish folk mysticism, etc. It is the crystallization of Yeats's literary and artistic thoughts.

"Emerson's Beautiful Essays: Not Thinking of the Past, Loving Only the Present" is a popular philosophy book at Harvard University. It is a collection of Emerson's essays, including themed essays, romantic poems and personal letters. Reading this book will shock your soul.

"Leonardo Da Vinci's Wisdom Notes (Give Life a Shallow Smile, Bilingual Collection of Four Color Paintings)" is the sincere and beautiful words of life from Leonardo da Vinci, the great genius of the Renaissance era. In addition to painting, Leonardo da Vinci also made great achievements in the fields of architecture, art, medicine and other fields. He was also good at writing beautiful essays and created a large number of fables, philosophy, literature and other works. "If there is no clear flow in the water, purity will turn into worry-free; if the heart does not rush, the essence will be like smoke and clouds"; "The distant past is vivid in the mind, but the recent events are as blurry as the past"; "The mottled old city wall, As long as it doesn't fall, it will be the beauty of the world."... Regarding life, living, and art, Leonardo da Vinci once had many wise and beautiful words in his manuscripts and diaries, cracking the code of life, and making people enlightened between the lines. "Leonardo da Vinci's Wisdom Notes (Give Life a Slight Smile, Bilingual Collection of Four-Color Beautiful Paintings)" is a collection of essays.

Throughout this book, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as dumb as you are. Gullible customers abound, buying products no matter how worthless or stupid. In short, it's time for Nostradamus to step aside. The author puts on his prophet's robe and provides a penetrating insight into everything from technology to the workplace, from elections to the battle of the sexes, from pet protection to the possibility of intelligent life on other planets. The book combines jokes and facts. It plays the hot notes of our society and makes readers laugh and surprise.

Chasing animal tracks in the melting snow, reading the history of oak tree rings, listening to the long calls of migrating geese... In this work, Aldo Leopold describes what he saw and heard in a simple country house far away from modern life, as well as his travel experiences throughout the continental United States. In the process, he also continued to think about the relationship between human beings and the earth on which they live, trying to reawaken people's love and respect for nature.

"The Book of Disquiet", also translated as "The Record of Panic", is a collection of late essays by the famous Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, and it is also an unfinished work. Many of the chapters in it are not like completed chapters, and there are even gaps waiting to be filled, but when added together, they can completely depict a person's soul. This is the first time that the complete Chinese translation of "The Book of Disquiet" has been released. For readers who like Pessoa, this book "The Book of Disquiet" is his long-lost classic in the Chinese market, and will open another door for us to glimpse Pessoa's vast philosophical universe.

"Reflections and Landscapes" is a collection of travel notes and essays by the famous modern Japanese writer Yokomitsu Riichi. Most of the selected works intuitively expose the inner sensibility with strange rhetoric and brilliant words. They are highly contagious, exquisite, thoughtful, euphemistic, and not lacking in depth.

This is the first collection of nature essays published by John Burroughs. As W. D. Howells, editor-in-chief of "The Atlantic Monthly" at that time, said: "This is a book about birds written by a person who is familiar with and loves birds - it is not a dry list of bird categories, but vivid birds that are displayed in front of us. The picture. The twilight in the forest and the fresh and peaceful atmosphere make the readers of this book unable to extricate themselves. Reading it gives them a feeling of summer vacation. "For people living in a highly modern metropolis, reading this book is tantamount to a spiritual journey in nature."

This book records the author's wonderful journey of living in seclusion by Walden Pond, integrating with nature, perceiving nature and reshaping himself in pastoral life. This book is a record of Thoreau's life and thoughts during two years, two months and two days in the woods of Walden Pond. This is a fresh, healthy, and inspiring book. It reveals to the world the true meaning of life discovered by the author in the life experiment of returning to nature - if a person can meet the basic needs of life, he can actually enjoy life more calmly and calmly.

Montaigne is one of the most important representatives of French humanism in the late Renaissance. Few people are as respected and accepted by modern people as he is. "Collected Essays of Montaigne" was published in three volumes in France from 1580 to 1588. It pioneered the essay-style prose in modern France. The language of the book is easy and smooth, full of wit and wit, and is full of the author's calm observation of human emotions.

Emerson's thoughts and works promoted the establishment and development of the American national spirit. And this "Collection of Emerson's Essays" is a selected translation of his representative works of prose. His works also let us understand that in the United States, which we know as materialistic, eccentric, and pursuing money and fashion, there is still a natural and calm side. Today, cultures around the world are facing the tests and challenges of globalization. Emerson's works can give us some important revelations and answers. Today, we re-read his works and review his thoughts, and this is the significance.

Excellent philosophical and beautiful articles are like stars in the sky. People will always be overwhelmed, but they are also afraid that they will be left behind. In order to let readers feel the style and charm of Chinese and foreign philosophical articles, so that readers can have wonderful enjoyment and absorb more useful spiritual food. The philosophical and beautiful articles extracted in this book are not only recognized as the best works, but also divided into categories with broad implications. They may eulogize nature or analyze society; they may praise truth, goodness and beauty, or lash out against falsehood, evil and ugliness. Behind their beautiful words, there are always profound philosophies contained or explained, giving people ideological enlightenment and behavioral insights.

Gibran is an immortal superstar in the world of literature and a pioneer of modern oriental literature to the world. His fluent language style has conquered generations of readers. It is the first love of young people's hearts and the insights of elders looking back after experiencing the world. His works combine the essence of Eastern and Western souls, transcend time and space, and become the eternal motto of mankind.

"The Waking Forest" is a famous work by the famous essayist John Burroughs, the father of American nature literature. When you take a dip in the book, you can listen to the musical concert of forest birds, and appreciate the birds building nests, which can be said to be an encyclopedia of birds. In addition to enjoying the singing of birds, the fragrance of flowers, and the freshness of nature, you can also increase your interest and knowledge about wilderness and jungles, clarify an attitude toward nature, and awaken the soft, delicate, and sleeping poetry deep in our hearts.

"Sand Country Almanack" is the crystallization of Leopold's lifelong observations, experiences and thinking, the founder of the new environmental theory in the United States and the father of ecological ethics. It is a book describing the relationship between land and people, and is known as the pioneering work of land ethics.

The love of parents is like mountains and rivers; the love of parents is thicker than water; the love of parents is unforgettable; the love of parents purifies the soul; parents accompany us through the bumpy road of life, and protect us to deal with the joys, sorrows and sorrows of life. From this moment on, we start to collect our feelings and feel the silent and invisible love with our hearts!

This book contains one hundred letters between Gandhi and important historical figures in India and the world, including Tagore, Nehru, Jinnah, Tolstoy, Romain Rolland, Churchill, Hitler, Chiang Kai-shek, Mountbatten, etc. In addition, it also includes nearly a hundred excerpts from letters; these letters and excerpts The records contain rich historical information, involving major historical events in India and the world, including India's first non-violent non-cooperation movement, hand-woven textile movement, "Quit India" movement, partition of India and Pakistan, World War II, etc., Providing rare and unique historical materials for in-depth discussion of these issues.

There are 13 stories in "The So-So Story", which the author "made up" in his early years to answer various questions raised by his daughter (such as why the whale's throat is so small, why the elephant's trunk is so long, and why the camel has a hump, etc.). Most of the stories in the book begin with an affectionate "My dear child," and many of the stories are peppered with jokes that fathers and daughters have shared privately. Kipling made full use of his extraordinary imagination and childlike sense of humor to explain to children why the things we see are the way they are. This book also comes with many hand-drawn illustrations by Kipling.

This book is a classic of Russian-Soviet literature and a very important work of Chekhov. In 1890, Chekhov set out from Moscow to Sakhalin Island in order to understand the local life and the fate of the local people. He conducted a detailed population survey on Sakhalin Island and learned about the families, labor, thoughts, etc. Of the local residents. After returning, he wrote "Travel to Sakhalin", which was published in 1895. This book combines description, discussion, and lyricism, contains a wealth of primary and secondary materials, and creates many vivid and full characters, expressing the writer's deep sympathy for the hard lives of ordinary people in the local area. Not only that, the experience of Sakhalin also cured Chekhov's spiritual crisis and brought him and more Russian intellectuals a new view of society and life. After this trip, Chekhov decided to "live among the people."

"Grass in Vain" is an extensive prose essay. The author Kaneyoshi Yoshida integrates a lifetime of rich experience and insight into short and casual words. It contains not only warnings and insights, but also anecdotes and customs of the four seasons. When this long scroll, which consists of 243 short essays, slowly unfolds, the social scene of Japan's late Kamakura period and Yoshida Kaneyoshi's Zen enlightenment that eliminates glitz and glamor emerge vividly on the page. "Hojo Chronicles" was written in 1212 and is known as the pinnacle of Japanese hermit literature. It is a collection of essays in which the author Ya Changming recalls his life experiences, describes the great changes in the world, and expresses his feelings about the impermanence of the world. This work has had a profound impact on Japanese literature, history, thought and other aspects, and is cherished as a cultural treasure by Japan.

This book was first published in 1960 and was written by Eleanor Roosevelt in the last years of her life. This is an inspiring handbook about personal exploration and life change. It is also a book that tells us the wisdom of life from an experienced grandmother, giving people confidence, strength and courage. The greatest experience in life, at the age of seventy-six, she said, is "experiencing life to its limits." This book gives us a lot of specific suggestions, such as how to use time, how to overcome fear, how to make ourselves useful to others, how to adjust ourselves, how to be an independent individual, how to let others show their best side when interacting with others, how to be responsible, how to participate in society and make changes, so that ourselves and others can live a better life, etc. "What have you learned in life to help you solve various problems?" The real first lady in the eyes of Americans gives the answer in this book.

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".

The content of this book is a selection of Tagore's three representative works - "Gitanjali", "Birds" and "Crescent Moon". It is the most philosophical, most literary, most popular, most noble moral and cultivated, and most harmonious text among Tagore's works.

Hesse is a famous writer with profound ideological connotation and unique artistic personality. He is good at using symbolic artistic means to deeply analyze the pain suffered by the human soul from the spiritual and psychological aspects. Hesse yearned for the oriental culture of India and China throughout his life, and had a special affinity with oriental culture. His extraordinary poetic temperament and "Oriental complex" are integrated, making his works reveal a certain detachment behind the passion. This book collects Hesse's representative prose works written in the middle and late period. From them, it is not difficult for us to appreciate the profound thoughts and extraordinary attainments of this literary master.

The world has become old and disabled in lies, just waiting for the last mercy. This book is the sequel to "The Boatman's Diary", written from 1991 to 1995. It is the second volume of Kertesz's diary-style philosophical essays. Kertesz continues The Boatman's Diary's broad readings and conversations with Nietzsche, Kafka, Wittgenstein, Camus, Beckett, Bernhard and others. However, compared to "The Boatman's Diary", this book is more closely related to the author's life experience at that time. In the five-year record, the author can be seen traveling to various European countries. In the records of these travels, he combined the auspicious moments in daily life with his continuous thoughts on life, humanity, nation, freedom, pain, etc., With his own literary creation concepts. What appear to be scattered fragments are given artistic expression. Although there are clear traces of national and national consciousness in it, the author's reflections on people's difficult choices in the great historical destiny are still inspiring to this day.

With his amazing memory and superb writing skills, Hemingway recreates the hunting experience in the deep mountains and old forests of Africa, allowing readers to immerse themselves in the thrilling scenes of the author's battle of wits and courage with animals, and hear the unique African lion's roar and twist. At the same time, Hemingway also vividly It vividly describes the competitiveness and jealousy displayed in the process of competing with Carl, and "anatomizes" himself mercilessly, showing the frankness of a man and the personality charm of a real man. It is the best book for readers to experience Hemingway's unique charm up close.

The love for nature and the pursuit of peace of mind are common features of human beings across time and space. As a historian, the author shows the lightness and beauty of French pastoral mountains and forests in the process of observing and recording nature. Because the natural creatures in his writings have broad sentiments and epic heights, he is highly praised by millions of readers and is often read. Adopting famous classic translations, the translation is accurate, smooth, beautiful and moving.

The content of "Flying Beyond Dreams" is: The dream is not to speed up, but to work hard, to create the meaning of life; the dream is not to endure, but to roar, but to decide not to wait anymore from today; the dream is not to admit defeat, but to take a breath, and then live more freely; the dream is not to be conservative, but to be willing to pay the price, and then share it with everyone; the dream is not to spoil, but to have the ability to care. ; The dream is not to argue, but to smile knowingly; the dream not only comes from bright motivation, but also from the gloomy encouragement; the dream is not to talk endlessly, but to focus and be silent temporarily; the dream is not to have more flowers and applause, but to have people you respect shout out your name; the dream is not to get more and achieve more, but that the people who love you are proud of you and are proud of you from the bottom of their hearts!

This is often the case in the prime years of life: long periods of time give way to frivolity, full of ambition, and finally return to laziness. Some people are sad about the spring and sad about the autumn, and are lonely and alone. Some people are complaining about the world and sighing about the earth, and they cannot bear to be lost. In fact, life is between breaths, and on the edge of gains and losses, there are still a few people who can escape unscathed, like autumn leaves, quiet and beautiful, neither complicated nor chaotic. Now that you are alive, you might as well live your life like Whitman, neither as a silent stream of water nor as a turbulent river at the top of the storm, but as a proud bloomer, like a lotus blooming at first, with the scent of mud everywhere on the grass blades, and as gorgeous as a summer flower at its peak, unfailing. The book collects Whitman's works in various styles, including his spiritual diary of sketches of nature, his experiences and insights during his travels, impassioned speeches, documentary essays on his personal life, and his own literary attitude. The all-round and three-dimensional reproduction of the vivid and real Whitman leads readers step by step into Whitman's spiritual world, and recollect with him the splendor, hesitation and tranquility in life.

"Essays of Ilya" brings together the most outstanding essays of the famous British writer Charles Lamb, which can be called a treasure of British literature in the 19th century. In these essays, Lamb used the pen name of "Ilya" to describe his life's reflections from his daily routine and family life. The themes of the essays are closely integrated with Lamb's own unique experience, and are also immersed in the broad and profound humanitarian atmosphere, which perfectly demonstrates the highest realm of British essays.

In 1975, Robin Davidson, a 27-year-old ordinary Australian woman, came to Alice Springs, Australia, to learn and understand the habits of camels and the related techniques of feeding and training them. Two years later, with that desire for the desert and self-exploration, Robin accepted financial support from the National Geographic magazine, took four camels and a dog, and embarked on a journey across more than 2,000 kilometers of desert in the hinterland of Australia. This is a journey of exploration and discovery in the Australian outback, as well as a simple and passionate spiritual adventure of a woman searching for herself and following her heart. During the nine-nine-month journey in the desert, Robin accepted the inner loneliness and physical deprivation, abandoned the original social shackles and prejudices, and continued to deal with drunkards and jealous ghosts. During the journey day after day, she began to gradually realize the vitality behind the wild land - tameness, richness, gentleness and generosity. She also began to think about the nature of life and its many possibilities. At the end of the trip, Robin said, "The journey is simple. It's no more dangerous than crossing the road, driving to the beach, or eating peanuts." She also believes that you are only as strong as you allow yourself to be.

This book contains 11 representative essays and novels by Kanoko Okamoto. In essays such as "Law for the Promotion of Loving Family", "Written to Ippei" and "Written to My Son in Paris", we see how Okamoto Kanoko looks back on her relatives and her own life. The heroines in his novels have distinct and different personalities: in "The Fifty-Three Times on the Road to the East", a woman who married and had children according to fate, and had an ordinary but smooth life; in "Her Morning", a mother who deeply loves her son who is far away in Paris with her husband. In "The House Spirit", the chuunin follows fate and imagines who will be his slutty husband and who will be the boss lady of the man who comforts him with his life; in "Lisette the Whore", the prostitute uses her hard-earned money to support a man who she loves and hates and who does not do her job properly. Each heroine seems to reflect a part of Okamoto Kanoko, and the author projects herself into the fictional characters. The whole book includes "The Method of Promoting Love of Family", "Okamoto Ippei's Theory", "Letter to Ippei", "Written to the Son in Paris", "Her Morning", "Exotic Food Notes", "Fifty-Three Times on the Tokaido Road", "Family Spirit", "Buying Tofu", "Lisette the Prostitute" and "Carp".

"Silver and Me" is one of Jimenez's important works. The book consists of 138 exquisite short prose pieces. The author takes his beloved little donkey Yin'er through the hustle and bustle of the market, pours out his heart to him, and even makes him a confidant. The poet's delicate descriptions are full of tenderness. The vivid and real rural life in his writings, his pity and sympathy for the people at the bottom, and his pure and warm interaction with the little donkey are enough to move people.

Over the course of his long writing career, Vonnegut's novels, plays, and essays received widespread international acclaim. In this book of interviews throughout his life, we can learn what drove Vonnegut to write, his final evaluation of his works, how he embarked on the path of writing, the influence of his family and family on the formation of his life values, and his identity as a writer during the war.