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This book is a collection of essays where you can smell the aroma of wine between the lines. Following "Lu Xun's Urban Odyssey", Shozo Fujii took a different approach, using wine as the key word to conduct a detailed investigation of modern and contemporary China. From Erguotou and Yanjing Beer in Beijing to Shanghai Beer, Shaoxing Wine, Shandong Sorghum Wine and Sake in Taiwan, etc., Wine is used as a clue to reconnect modern and contemporary literature and film and television works, reflecting the changes in Chinese culture and economic life, such as Paramount in Shanghai Ballroom Legend has it that the changes in China's economic system before and after reform and opening up, as well as the changes in the landscape of "public banquets" and "private banquets" brought about by the anti-corruption campaign in the past decade or so... The author is also a witness to the changes. The changes in the Chinese cultural circle since the reform and opening up are perfectly integrated with the author's study abroad experience.

The narrator stands as a spokesman for an indigenous nation that has been overrun and abused by imperialist colonizers. He recalls the deep beauty of his homeland in a lyrical and stream-of-consciousness way, and accuses imperialists and chauvinists, mainly in the Western world, of exploiting and alienating the simple creatures of this nation. When the indigenous civilization met the Western civilization, under the strong impact of the economy, military, technology and civilization of the Western industrial civilization, the indigenous civilization retreated and died. People were forced to leave their homeland, their familiar production methods and daily routines, and go to the Western civilized world to earn wages and make a living. While describing this change, the author also brings up a global dilemma we are facing today: forced migration.

Chekhov had many notebooks, which contained momentary feelings he jotted down in his life, rough drafts, sketches of future works, reading experiences, and best practices copied from other writers' books. The notes are not only a memorandum of his literary creation, but also an index of his mature works. Ten years after his death, his wife Knibil made the "Chekhov's Notes" after rigorous selection and organization and made it public. Woolf's husband Leonard once co-translated "Notes" into English and published it. The Chinese translation was first released in 1953. With the fate of the translator Jia Zhifang, it was buried in the library for nearly thirty years until it was reprinted in 1982. In his words, the fate of this translation was also the fate of his life.

"Twilight" is Diana Asier's masterpiece. It has won many awards such as the Costa Biography Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is an essay about her old life written when she was approaching 90 years old. It is frank, open-minded and interesting. She talked about the various changes in old age, mixed with memories of her past life. She generously recalled several of her love histories, confessed her indifference to missing her motherhood, and honestly faced the pain of old age. However, she still talked passionately about the new experiences gained in gardening, painting, reading, writing, etc. Overall, Asir shows us a very unique female sample, allowing us to see how an ordinary intellectual woman maintains her independent self in dealing with the world, and finally faces aging and the end of life calmly.

Does being single, unmarried, and living alone mean that you will die alone? They refuse to follow formulas in life! Friends Kim Ha Neul and Hwang Sun Woo, who have lived alone for more than 20 years, are gradually getting tired of the loneliness and uneasiness of living alone. They accidentally fell in love with a house and decided to buy it together and start living together. After living together, the two friends truly saw the huge differences between each other - hoarding vs. Minimalism, cooking idiot vs. Cooking genius. As they quarreled, worked together, and complemented each other's strengths and weaknesses, they gradually understood themselves better through their differences with each other. They eat together, exercise together, drink together, and be cat slaves together. They don't have to support each other's parents or become someone's daughter-in-law. They take care of each other when they are sick and help each other in difficulties... They have found the lightness of being single and the warmth of being with someone, and the beauty of being able to coexist at the same time.

"Sand Country Almanack" is a collection of essays by Aldo Leopold, the "father of ecological ethics". Among them, "The Return of the Wild Geese" and "Thinking Like a Mountain" were selected into middle school Chinese textbooks. The book is divided into four series. The first series is divided into 12 chapters according to the 12 months of the year, collectively called "Sand Country Almanac". The second series is called "Sketches from Four Directions" and takes Wisconsin and other places as the writing object. The third series is "Rural Reveries", and the fourth series is the conclusion. This book is the crystallization of the author's lifelong observation, experience and thinking. The book not only expresses the recollection of the harmonious life on the farm in Wisconsin's sandy countryside, but also records the lessons and pain experienced in pursuing a scientific ecological view. It also discusses the relationship between man and nature, man and land, and attempts to reawaken people's love and respect for nature. Translator Cao Minglun's translation highlights the charm of nature and beauty.

Haruki Murakami's 2022 new essay collection, 18 essays and anecdotes, 108 photos of Murakami's private collection of T-shirts. From rock T-shirts, record T-shirts, marathon-themed T-shirts, corporate co-branded T-shirts, to beer T-shirts... Haruki Murakami's personal wardrobe is revealed! He is a writer and a lifestyle expert! The book is full of pictures and texts, making it enjoyable to read. Each essay topic in the book, such as whiskey, marathon, and records, is Haruki Murakami's most representative personal label. It is not an exaggeration to say that Haruki is read through a "T-shirt." The new book also includes 108 selected photos of T-shirts that are dazzling just by looking at them and make you want them, showing Murakami's aesthetics of life. At the same time, don't miss the specially included wonderful interviews with Japanese heavyweight fashionistas Nomura Nomura and Haruki Murakami. Readers who like Murakami's prose can appreciate the Murakami-style essays in the book, as well as the fascinating interest in life. The way to become a Murakami-style lifestyler is all in this book. Begin to get to know Haruki Murakami again from "Murakami T".

Woolf's selection of literary criticism is sharp and profound, and the words are full of interest and wisdom, giving people rich inspiration. Mr. Qu Shijing's classic translation, the new edition includes two newly translated excellent works, and is accompanied by the translator's long article "Virginia Woolf's Novel Theory". Woolf was not only accomplished in novel creation, but also a keen-eyed critic. This book is a selection of her literary criticism, including two volumes of "The Common Reader" and representative works from other anthologies. In these twenty wonderful articles, the author discusses her views on the works of famous writers such as Austen, Conrad, Hardy, Lawrence, Forster, etc. The writing style is sharp and profound, and the words are full of interest and wisdom, giving people rich enlightenment.

The founder of "Doctors Without Borders" and an academician of the French Academy embarked on a 900-kilometer walking pilgrimage. It is not about religious piety, but about forgetfulness, the spiritual "pilgrimage" of forgetting the constraints of daily life, forgetting the fatigue and bad weather of long distances, forgetting industrialization and material scarcity. Santiago de Compostela (Spanish: Santiago de Compostela; meaning "Santiago of the Starry Fields") is the capital of the Galician Autonomous Region in Spain, with a population of less than 100,000. According to legend, James, one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, is buried here and is one of the Catholic pilgrimage destinations. Since the Middle Ages, pilgrims have come here in an endless stream, and even formed a famous pilgrimage road, the Way of St. James. In 2011, after leaving his post as ambassador, Jean-Christophe Luffin decided to embark on a journey to Santiago. "Immortal Journey" is a true record of Lu Fen's pilgrimage. The humorous, self-deprecating and emotional writing style shows not only the basic common sense of pilgrimage, but also the magnificent scenery, interesting things along the way, portraits of unexpected characters, and even the boundless thoughts of a lonely walker between heaven and earth.

Woolf's famous work is the foundation of stream-of-consciousness novels. It has many innovations in subject matter, style and writing methods. Woolf created an eternal classic with her keen perception of the moment. "Mrs. Dalloway" was published in 1925 and is known as the foundation of the stream of consciousness novel. The novel describes a day in the life of the heroine Clarissa Dalloway, detailing her preparations for a dinner party held at home. However, what readers see is not just Mrs. Dalloway's activities in a day, but her temperament, her encounters, and her relationship with her family and friends. The characters' memories and the transformation of time and space are intertwined and interpenetrated, falling like raindrops in colorful colors, making us unconsciously empathize with each other, and the picture of Mrs. Dalloway's life is slowly unfolding before our eyes.

This collection of essays are all independent chapters, and the topics discussed involve reading, thinking, writing, language learning, destiny, survival and many other aspects. The materials for these topics all come from our daily lives. Therefore, ordinary readers can also follow Schopenhauer's lead and start from familiar things to appreciate his grand vision. Schopenhauer's articles are meaningful and have clear views. "Their thinking points directly to the things themselves" and "We should think like great men and express like ordinary people" ("On Writing and Style"). Readers who have read Schopenhauer's work, whether they agree with Schopenhauer's views or not, will probably have no objection to this: Schopenhauer always practices his own views and expresses his thoughts objectively and clearly.

This collection of essays is a selection of carefully translated articles from "The Complete Essays of Montaigne", most of which deal with important issues that trouble life. Through these articles, we can roughly understand the valuable characteristics of life that Montaigne paid attention to. For example, in "To discuss philosophy is to study death", Montaigne talked about his own philosophy of life and understanding of death; in "On Books", he commented on the books he had read and introduced his reading methods; in "On Three Kinds of Intercourse", he described the study in which he wrote and discussed how to read and think...

This book selects 36 polemical essays from Friedrich Nietzsche's many important works. The book opens with three classic articles by Nietzsche discussing educational issues: "On the Future of Our Educational Institutions", "Humanistic Education Begins with Strict Language Training" and "Three Measures of University Education". The rest of the book contains 33 exquisite expositions selected from important works such as "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", "Twilight of the Idols" and "Look, This Man". In the process of criticizing Christianity, Nietzsche focused on criticizing "pity". Nietzsche believes that great acts of kindness will not make people grateful, but will lead to revenge; if this small favor has not been forgotten, it will become a worm that is always gnawing; loving one's neighbor is a pathological good and the morality of the weak; the kindness of the strong should inspire people's unique personality of self-respect and self-improvement, and promote "healthy selfishness" in people. And "healthy selfishness" is the clean selfishness that overflows from the powerful soul. It takes all things into itself and then makes them ebb from the individual soul as a gift of love. Therefore, Nietzsche advocates that human beings should love distant people, love people in the future, love the beginning, and love ghosts.

"Searching for China" is Brian Lyndon's memoir of 35 years of living in China. This is an American "Chinese Dream" story. The author details how China has changed his life over the past thirty years, vividly demonstrating his personal exploration, understanding, and integration into China as well as his emotional changes during the process. During the thirty years of his association with China, Linden and his family have witnessed the development of China. In 1984, Linden was cleaning carpets while attending night school in Chicago. By chance, he won a Chinese government scholarship, came to China to study, and experienced China's reform and opening up in the 1980s. During his arrival in Beijing, he studied Chinese, starred in movies, became a photojournalist, entered Nanjing University Johns Hopkins Research Center for graduate studies and met his wife. This valuable experience enabled him to return to the United States as a doctoral candidate at Stanford University. In 2004, he returned to China with his wife and two young sons and took root in Xizhou, Yunnan. He devoted himself to protecting and restoring China's (national) material cultural heritage and founded the "Xilinyuan" hotel brand. Linden participated in the exploration and development of the inner texture of Chinese rural areas and became a practitioner of international education, connecting China and the world so that more foreigners and Chinese can have a deeper understanding of the real China.

After Richard Mabey completed "Encyclopedia Britannica Plants", he reached the peak of his career. However, his personal life experience and emotional changes caused him to fall into a period of depression. With the help of friends, he moved to East Anglia and the vast wilderness of Norfolk, allowing him to return to nature, find the source of joy and inspiration from childhood, and rebuild his life. He is as acquainted with nature, its plants and its earth, as a scholar is acquainted with ideas and books. He can see the veins of the earth and appreciate the nature of the soil; he can recognize the songs of various birds and the signs of animals, and understand the secrets of each plant's flowering and nectar production. Richard Mabee's writing style is witty and elegant, sophisticated but not obscure. "Heart to the Wilderness" not only contains meticulous observations and rich knowledge of animals and plants, but also discusses history, literature, and philosophy. The language is poetic, touching, and full of philosophical thoughts. The Guardian commented on his work, "Just as the poet William Blake said: See the world in a grain of sand."

This book is a collection of essays by the author of the critically acclaimed novel "Pornographic Land". In this reprint, the author has made new revisions and added original illustrations specially created by the illustrator for this book. In recent years, overseas Chinese literature has attracted more and more attention, and the quality of Li Zishu's writing is particularly worthy of attention. Her creations have also been praised by many Chinese writers and critics, and her Douban score has reached a high score of 9.2. Celebrities in the literary world such as Wang Anyi and Wang Dewei praised her highly. In this book, she uses delicate words, strong description ability and rich philosophical thoughts to record her thoughts and thoughts while traveling around the world. Readers can see the world in Li Zishu's eyes, and more importantly, they can feel the beauty of language itself, allowing reading to return to reading itself.

Calcutta, the capital of British India, was once the "Gateway to the Empire" and the largest city in Asia. It was the center of India's industrial and cultural development and gave birth to Rabindranath Tagore, Vivekananda, Satyajit Ray... As a trading port established by the British on the Ganges, this city was originally composed of immigrants from all over the world. People came here from across the ocean, formed communities, and settled down on this land. But in the 21st century, Calcutta's status is no longer what it used to be, and young people have to leave their hometowns and go to more developed European and American countries in order to make a living. It was at this time that Kushanava Chowdhury, who had emigrated many times, came back - he graduated from Princeton University and received a doctorate from Yale University. He gave up his job in the United States and returned to the city abandoned by his immigrant parents to re-examine this "child of yesterday" who grew up between rivers and swamps...

Jean Baudrillard is a world-renowned postmodern theorist. But in front of interviewers and audiences, he became an excellent speaker, sharing his views on theory, reality, and life with enthusiasm and philosophy. This book contains for the first time 25 interviews covering his entire career, spanning the 40 years from 1968 to 2008. These interviews cover a wide range of topics, including major works such as "Consumer Society", "Lethal Tactics", "On Seduction" and "Simulacra and Simulation", as well as his rich life experiences such as his academic career, journey to the United States, and photography practice, as well as his responses to contemporary topics such as terrorism. In this book, we can not only get a glimpse of the scholar's ideological career, but also have a dialogue with such a sincere and profound old friend. These interviews, scattered in newspapers, magazines and journals around the world, may be the most precious and vivid collection of Baudrillard's thoughts in the world.

Leonardo da Vinci left many notes throughout his life. He had tens of thousands of notes. Later generations are also looking for these precious notes and preserving them. From these notes, we can not only get a glimpse of the ideological circuit of Leonardo da Vinci, but also trace the ideological trend of the Renaissance. Leonardo da Vinci was diligent in recording throughout his life and wrote tens of thousands of notes. Today, only more than 5,000 pages remain. The notes in this book cover many fields, including a large number of explanations and sketches on astronomy, geography, architecture, water conservancy, fossils, and even optics. There are many wonders among them, and all kinds of knowledge that transcend the cognition of the times emerge in endlessly. Its preciousness can be seen from the world's pursuit of it. His works are scattered in various European countries. Although later generations tried hard to preserve them, some of them were destroyed by Napoleon. Therefore, this manuscript is particularly precious. This notebook was auctioned by Microsoft founder Bill Gates for US$30.8 Million in 1994, making it the most expensive book in the world and making this notebook truly well-known to the world. Most of Leonardo da Vinci's notes were written backwards in Italian with his left hand. The reason for writing backwards was to prevent the handwriting from becoming blurred. However, most of Leonardo's handwriting is messy and therefore difficult to read, and must be mirrored to read correctly. Leonardo da Vinci's great talent in using language, rhetoric and image thinking made these chapters beautiful essays that future generations will never tire of reading.

When an artist talks about another artist, he is always talking about himself. Kundera's private aesthetic inventory, a map of modern literature, music, and painting. "Encounter" is Milan Kundera's fourth collection of essays after "The Art of the Novel", "The Testament Betrayed" and "Curtain". It is divided into nine parts, covering various fields such as painting, literature, music and so on. Kundera, as always, "enters and exits the realm of art", and in the book recalls the "encounter" with Francis Bacon, Fuentes, Schoenberg, Anatole France and others. It is not only an "encounter" of aesthetics, but also an "encounter" of several eras, and it is also an "encounter" of the author with his old themes and old loves.

Milan Kundera's literary essays, the third of Kundera's novel theory trilogy, are the continuation of "The Testament Betrayed" and "The Art of the Novel". "Curtain" is Kundera's rectification of many concepts on novels, literature and even art. "Curtain" outlines Kundera's previous thoughts on the art of fiction, and explores the world of fiction art that is intertwined with history and life reality in a freer way. Cervantes sent Don Quixote to travel around the world, tearing apart the "curtain" woven by legends and pre-interpretations that concealed the nature of reality... Kundera summarily integrated his own life experiences, mentioning Cervantes, Rabelais, Stern, Flaubert, Musil, Joyce, and Carstens. Fka and many other his favorite novelists, interspersed with multiple texts such as "Emotional Education", "1993", "Idiot" and "As I Lay Dying", divided into "awareness of continuity", "world literature", "entering the soul of things", "what is a novelist", "aesthetics and existence" and "torn" "Curtain", "Novel, Memory, Forgetting", in seven parts, with numerous subtitles, unfolds the analysis of multiple concepts such as time, kitsch, comedy, forgetfulness, etc., Announcing that "once used in art, the concept of history has nothing to do with progress; it does not mean a kind of perfection. An improvement, an improvement; it is like a journey to explore unknown lands and mark them on the map." "The novelist is not the servant of the historian." "The novelist is not someone who only wants to please the reader." This proves the need to introduce "the non-poetic nature of life" in novels.

Kundera's literary legacy and the world beyond Kundera's novels. What the novel discovers is what is hidden in each of us. Memory is not the denial of forgetting, but a form of forgetting. "The Testament Betrayed" is divided into nine independent parts, and some of the same characters appear again and again: including Stravinsky and Kafka and their intriguing friends, Janacek and Hemingway, Rabelais and his descendants-those great novelists. This book focuses on the humorous spirit on which the novel is based, its mysterious origins with music, its three-stage historical development process, the aesthetics of modern novels, and the life intelligence of the novel. _X000b__x000b_

"Leave the World to Dusk and Me" is a selection from Thoreau's autobiographical essay collection "Walden". Complete collection of the classic chapters "Economy", "Where Do I Live; Why Do I Live" and "Hermitage". Thoreau stayed away from the hustle and bustle of the world. He wanted to find an authentic state of existence and a more poetic life in the tranquility of nature. "Walden" describes the author's deep thinking and self-reshaping process in a simple life. The writing style is quiet and tranquil, thought-provoking, and has a calming power.

The true story of the sole survivor of the 1971 Peruvian plane crash who returned to civilization after trekking through the Amazon rainforest for 11 days. On December 24, 1971, 17-year-old girl Juliane boarded an Air Peru plane with her mother, preparing to go home to spend Christmas with her father. It was originally a smooth journey, but when it was approaching the Amazon rainforest, it encountered a heavy thunderstorm, and the plane crashed in the primitive jungle only dozens of kilometers away from the civilized world. Julianne was tied to an airplane seat and fell into the jungle from an altitude of three thousand meters. She was the only survivor among the 92 passengers, including her mother, a survival that experts could barely explain as a "modern miracle." With unimaginable courage, intuition and tenacity, Julianne walked alone in the Green Hell of the Amazon rainforest for eleven days. The skills she learned as a child in the rainforest with her parents allowed her to survive. It was not until more than 40 years after the plane crash that the author wrote a book about this incredible catastrophe for the first time, reviewing the efforts of his biologist parents in the science of birds, animals and plants, reliving his happy childhood in the Amazon rainforest, and the turning points in his life after the disaster.

Shoko is a patient with Down syndrome. Her mother, Yasuko, raised her child in tears. She experienced boundless darkness again and again, but she was always able to find light in the darkness and move on. The words of mother Yasuko and the calligraphy of daughter Shoko together constitute this warm little book. From this book, we see a vivid Shoko. She is innocent, kind, happy, and full of vitality. She is her mother's treasure, a little magician in the shopping street, and an angel-like existence. Such a unique existence is Shoko!

Stupidity armed with knowledge, mediocrity adorned with respectability. The majority is always right and the minority is always wrong. Let's consult the Commonplace Dictionary to "find the words you must say to be a decent and approachable person in society." "Dictionary of Commonplaces" is a legendary short book by the great French writer Flaubert. It is derived from Flaubert's posthumous comic novel "Bovart and Pécuchet". It has a special form. It presents a dictionary compiled by two scribes after they abandoned their jobs to join the "scientific career". It is both a "work hidden in the novel" and a "work outside the novel". It was edited and published in France more than 30 years after the author's death. The Dictionary of Commonplaces ridicules various prejudices, prejudices, and conclusions of "bourgeois" in the form of entries. It can be called an encyclopedia of human stupidity and ignorance. Flaubert, an innovator ahead of his time, had long wanted to ridicule the world at that time. From today's perspective, it has a bitter irony on human nature. This legendary little book is unique among Flaubert's creations. Studies of Flaubert's works such as "Critical Biography of Flaubert" and "Flaubert's Parrot" have analyzed it. Many writers such as famous contemporary writers Milan Kundera and Alain de Botton have talked about the beauty of this book.

Yukio Mishima's masterpiece of essays is a sharp introduction to love, marriage, and personality development. It is humorous and playful and shows how a straight male writer teaches the secrets of love. It includes three short stories: "New Love Lecture", "The Aesthetics of Ending" and "Spiritual Conversation to Young Samurai". They talk about the art of love, social skills and the development of teenagers' character and provide sincere suggestions. What exactly is love? What kind of love do you want to have? Japanese literary master Yukio Mishima wrote this book specifically to explain love. From the form, morality, philosophy and techniques of love, Mishima uses humorous and sharp writing to get to the core, guiding men and women how to fall in love and how to reveal their true emotions in love. This book contains three short story collections: "Lectures on New Love", "The Aesthetics of Ending" and "Spiritual Talks to Young Samurai". In addition to love, it also touches on issues such as social art, character development, etc. It is unique and thought-provoking. Especially in today's society where people's views on love and values ​​are unstable, this book can help readers examine love, family, and life from another perspective, which has great practical significance. This book is also the embodiment of Mishima's philosophy and aesthetic thoughts.

She is the daughter of the forest and grew up in the forest. From a female lumberjack to a young female scientist who proposed new ideas, she was repeatedly squeezed and suppressed in a field where women were severely discriminated against, but she still moved forward tenaciously with her passion and became widely recognized as the "Mother of the Tree Network" and a well-deserved celebrity in the field of forest ecology. She had lost a loved one, had her family broken up, and suffered from a serious illness. It was her beloved forest and family and friends that gave her strength, healed her wounds, and helped her regain her vitality. In this book, Simard tells the story of his unique life journey. Her life parallels research exploring the forest's hidden underground network. Trees and fungi in the forest are mutually beneficial and build an intricate "tree-dimensional network", just like our neural network or the Internet, through which nutrients and water can be transferred; trees use this to exchange information and help each other. The center of the tree network is the mother tree, which uses powerful power to connect and maintain all the surrounding offspring. In a dynamic and self-healing forest, competition is not a permanent theme. The cooperative relationship between trees and between trees and fungi is far more important than we imagine. Only by being altruistic can we benefit ourselves. The same is true for human beings. The relationships between us and our relatives, lovers, and friends are intertwined into an intricate network of social relationships, which provide us with valuable support and help and are the source of our constant review and energy absorption as we move forward. This book will forever change the way we see trees and give us the power to heal.

In the book, the author tells the interesting stories and life insights he has experienced in the field of neurology for many years, and shares with readers some cases that are either bitter, dramatic or bizarre: a chef who goes out for a walk every morning and suddenly loses six hours of memory; a young painter who believes that his left hand is his "guardian angel"; an old man who lives alone sees Santa Claus flying a helicopter in his bedroom; an easy-going, young and vigorous painter A football player becomes irritable and always gets into fights because he feels he is being persecuted; a carpenter stumbles out of his car only to be diagnosed with a severe neurological disease; Tubridy explains in simple and enlightening terms well-known diseases such as multiple sclerosis, motor neurone disease and Parkinson's disease, and takes us into the examination room to accompany his patients on the challenging road to receiving these diagnoses. In addition, he also frankly explained his medical career: as the son of a doctor, why he wanted to practice medicine; how he diagnosed patients; when faced with bad news, how he told his patients bad news; as a doctor, how his life was affected and how it changed. In this thought-provoking, gripping, and moving book, you'll learn about the human brain in a whole new way and see life, death, and your own life from a different perspective.

"The Adventure of Enlightenment" is a long dialogue between the famous German writer Günter Grass and the German contemporary literary critic Haro Zimmermann from June to August 1998. The two conducted extensive discussions on Grass's literary and artistic career, his views on modern and contemporary German literature, his evaluation of his own works, his attitude towards criticism, as well as Germany's history and reality. Through the dialogue, readers can have a deeper understanding of Günter Grass's works and thoughts, especially some of his difficult works that have received completely different evaluations. This book allows us to see another side of the novelist Glass, an intellectual who is active in the world and has a sense of justice.

People always have all kinds of desires... "Welcome to the Desire Store"! A collection of warm essays by the popular Japanese picture book writer Shinsuke Yoshitake! People always have desires of one kind or another. They are happy with desires, but also troubled by desires. Desires can be related to important issues such as money and status, but they also exist in daily life, and even manifest themselves in small thoughts that are often ignored - can I have another snack? It doesn't matter if you sleep a little longer, right? What kind of life do I yearn for? What should I do if I don't want to go to work? Everyone has all kinds of strange little desires and thoughts, and it is precisely because of this that human beings become rich and interesting. In this book, Shinsuke Yoshitake records every detail of his life and shares many unique moments and ingenious philosophical thoughts, which will make you smile knowingly and be truly moved at the same time.

There must be many things hidden in this world that I can find if I keep looking. Ogawa Ito's words are just right and restrained, implying deep feelings, making people want to seriously cherish every moment of light in life. "If I can harvest grapefruit in my garden in the future, that will be enough to make people cheer. There should be a long, long way to go before that day." Ogawa Ito wrote an essay about his life spanning a year with his usual delicate words. Ogawa Ito's ability to create atmosphere is extremely strong, making people feel that everything is a beautiful fragment of life. Ogawa Ito deconstructs simple daily life, every word and sentence is concise and gentle, full of just the right amount of elegance and affection. No matter which page you turn and which paragraph you read, you will feel beautiful but not excessive. In monotonous days, Ogawa Ito chooses to decorate his life with different rewards. Living every day well is the greatest reward for yourself.

"Pillow" is a landmark masterpiece in the history of Japanese literature, a literary miracle book that has been passed down for thousands of years. Written around 1000 AD, it was the first of Japanese essay literature, and together with The Tale of Genji, it is the "twin gems of Heian period literature". "Pillow" can clearly and directly lead readers to understand the delicacy and beauty of Japanese literature, as well as the aesthetic taste in Japanese culture. The book has a total of 305 paragraphs, divided into three major contents: clustering, diary and reflections.

Sayaka Murata's new essay collection collects 72 works published in various newspapers and magazines since her debut. The book contains the author's memories of her childhood, introduces music and books that had a profound impact on her, and various interesting things she encountered in her travels, etc. It records Sayaka Murata's various imaginations of life, and spreads her embarrassed and funny appearance before our eyes.

This book is a selection of articles written by the famous British classical scholar Mary Beard on her blog "The Life of a Cambridge Professor" from 2006 to 2008. In these articles, Professor Beard talks about ancient and modern times, elucidates the subtleties, and shows readers a Cambridge professor's thoughts and suggestions on teaching and education, Greece and Rome, and current affairs and politics. Where did the lip prints on the sculpture come from? What did the Romans wear under their togas? Do physicists need French? How to do a good interview at Oxford and Cambridge? In Professor Beard's sharp and interesting writing style, a colorful picture scroll is unfolding.

Continuing the style of the previous volume, Professor Mary Beard continues to express her many views on education, classical history, and current affairs in her blog, which is both interesting and educational. Somali pirates are rampant, why not try what Pompeo did? What jokes did the Romans tell? How bad are UK election party manifestos? In chronological order, this book provides readers with many shining points to think about and explore, showing the profound and slightly weird inner world of classical scholars!

"The Complete Essays of Bacon" is a collection of essays created by the British philosopher and writer Francis Bacon. It contains some short essays of an argumentative nature, covering politics, economics, religion, love, marriage, friendship, art, education, ethics and other aspects. It contains the essence of Bacon's thoughts. It is Bacon's representative work in literature and the pioneer of British essay literature. It has been translated into and published in many languages. This book is translated by Li Jiazhen.

This book records the 120 last words of the actress Shu Xilin who died of illness on September 15, 2018. Aging, loneliness, illness, work, family, marital relationships... These are all high walls that everyone will encounter in the journey of life. How should we overcome them? The revelation lies in the words of Ms. Shu Xilin during her lifetime. This book is compiled from the most touching parts of Ms. Kuki Shirin's speeches in interviews on various occasions, including interviews in the NHK special "Living Like Shirin Kuki" and the Asahi Shimbun's serialized "Life Message" column. Ms. Shu Shilin, who has practiced "letting nature take its course" throughout her life and remained true to her true self until the last moment of her life, is full of her humanity and philosophy of life in her forthright words. Not constrained by prejudices and common sense, she laughs at life, and no matter what difficulties she encounters, whether she is aging or sick, she regards them as the "nutrient" to survive. This is the kind of tree Xilin whose many words will inspire us a lot. In short, look at the world with an interesting attitude. At the same time, this book also includes a large number of secret photos provided by family members, as well as precious stills from memorable TV series.

"The Sun and Iron" is a long prose written by Mishima Yukio in his late period, and it is also a rare autobiographical work in his creative career. In this book, Mishima uses poetic language full of symbolism to elaborate on inner contradictions and conflicts from various angles. He condensed his own beliefs into the sun, and the sun was the external glory of the muscle shape, reflecting the muscles. Iron is the form of the inner strength of muscles. Only after experiencing the training of the sun and iron can the body maintain its eternal glory and bear all value. "The Sun and Iron" is an important work in which Mishima Yukio reveals his inner thoughts and aesthetics. It is also a key text in interpreting the mystery of his death.

This is an extraordinary memoir, telling the emotional test a young couple faced while raising an autistic child. It is of great social value and has special care for the domestic autistic community. "I have been buried under the dust for many years, and now I have a lot to say." This is what 25-year-old Emily wrote. She was born with non-verbal autism. For a quarter of a century, her only way of communication was one-word reactions or body movements. After unremitting efforts, Emily was finally able to express her heart in words. Through insights, stories and poems, she depicts the extraordinary spiritual world of people with autism in a highly personal way.

"Clothes of a Clear Sun" is a collection of prose essays by the representative Japanese aesthetic writer Karika Nagai, including Zhou Zuoren's favorite special collection "Cloths of a Clear Sun", as well as 17 excellent prose essays such as "Snowy Day", "Bells" and "Plum Rain Clear". As the "Preface" says, "The recorded image of Japan today" presents the emotion of "the abyss of yesterday has become a shoal today, and everything in the world is unpredictable." Nagai Hefeng's life, aspirations, literary and artistic views, creative views, etc. Are all included in this excellent prose. The written words are like vivid "Edo period" ukiyo-e paintings. When you walk among them, you can see familiar remnants and remnants of past civilization everywhere. "Sunny Geta" describes a story about a 100-year-old man wearing Sunny Geta and holding a bat umbrella in the streets and alleys of Tokyo and its suburbs. He recounts his experiences and thoughts in detail, especially recording the traditional Japanese culture and ancient relics that have been severely damaged under the impact of modern civilized society. It expresses the aftertaste, yearning and nostalgia for the secular life in Edo in a sad and sad mood, highlighting the cultural critical vision of a traditional literati in a period of social transformation. He poured his nostalgia for the scenery of the past into his writing, constructing an aesthetic space that is different from that of contemporary cities, and showing the Dutch-style literati taste and tranquil and comfortable life. Karika Nagai is a sentimental nostalgist. His words are full of passionate and simple nostalgia for the Meiji period. He disdains the society after Taisho that is full of suspicion and resentment. He feels that Japan's modern life and Japanese people's temperament are completely different from the elegance of Japanese scenery. "In those days, the falling snow on the street could always evoke the sadness in people's hearts just like the timbre of the shamisen." "What is irreversible in this world are not just short-lived dreams." These emotions are particularly strong in works such as "Geta on a Sunny Day", "Snowy Day", "Hometown Now and Then" and "Concubine's House". Like his novels, Hefeng's prose essays reflected his high sensitivity to the tide of modernization in Japan at that time. He used literature to criticize current ills and face social problems directly. He also conveyed his firm belief that "the deep valleys of moral corruption are not without true and kind feelings." This was the fulcrum of his nostalgia for Edo. As the saying goes, "Knowing people and judging the world", the best way to interpret Nagai Hefeng is to read his essays. It is said that literature is like people, and this is especially true for him.

Relic organizers often spend a day or two sorting out the things people left behind in the world. These things still have residual warmth. This warmth comes from the photos of the children that the old man still caressed affectionately after death, the paper cranes that the old woman still calmly folded after the countdown to life, the "Ten Things I Want to Do Before Death" written neatly in a notebook (contacting friends, remembering the daughter's wedding, etc.)... All of this is recorded in simple and sincere language. In the eyes of relic organizers, every relic collection site is a grand tribute to the dignity of life. They clean up the traces left by the body with reverence, and carefully put the relics that the deceased had kept at hand and hidden under the quilt into special storage boxes and handed them over to the bereaved family, so that the remaining warmth of the deceased's life can continue to warm their family and friends, and the meaning of life can be rethought and sublimated through handovers and inheritances again and again - what is left after life is not money or status, but shared memories with loved ones.

"100 Moments When I Love You" is a booklet full of deep love. This book is a beautiful token of love and an original gift. Its exquisite design, rich topics, and personalized frames can help you and your loved ones capture the full emotions, beautiful memories, and sour and warm love, bringing your hearts closer and letting your feelings stay forever between the lines. Every word presented and filled in in the book is simple, but inspiring and meaningful. It will jointly witness the upgrade of feelings, record important moments, and allow you to gain richer love in reading and writing.

"Dragonfly Diary" is divided into three parts: the first, middle and second parts. The narrative spans half of Dao Tsuna's life. Based on different creative periods, the narrative and emotion of each volume present a different look. But the emotional entanglement with her husband and family has always been the keynote of the narrative throughout. The story in the first volume begins with Kaneie's proposal and records the process before and after the marriage. You can feel the helplessness, uneasiness and pain of Michizuna's mother in a polygamous marriage. With marriage as a turning point, the positions of the hero and heroine have been reversed. Michizuna's mother has changed from a pampered aristocratic lady and one of the "three beauties of this dynasty" with proud literary talent, to a passive state waiting for the arrival of Kanye's family. The happiness of starting a family did not last long, as her husband married a new man, followed by jealousy of the new high-ranking woman and an even longer wait. In the diary records, Michizuna's mother candidly talked about her depression, disappointment, jealousy, and concern about the honor and disgrace of other women in the relationship. The social life of the upper-class nobles, Japanese songs and exchanges, and the gathering and separation of relatives and friends of her mother's family were also interspersed. The middle volume is full of reflections. Based on the content of "my" marriage, the author focuses on describing the emotional relationship with her husband and family, showing "my" state of mind. It is generally considered to be the most "diary" among the three volumes of "Dragonfly Diary". In addition to the family, this volume also records real social events, such as the "Anhe Change". In the context of big history, with the continuous entry of new lovers, it shows the further deterioration of the relationship between "I" and my husband and family. In a state of near-desperate melancholy, Dao Tsuna embarked on a journey, hoping for help from gods and Buddhas. She began to think about life in harmony with nature, and almost wanted to become a monk. In the end, she was forcibly taken down the mountain by her husband. After reflecting on her heart through the repetition of daily and extraordinary, stillness and movement, Michizuna realized that her relationship with Kane was irreversible, and even seeking help from gods and Buddhas would be of no avail, so she tried to give up her attachment to Kane and began to rethink her own possibilities as a woman in life. In the second volume, the strong love and hatred for her husband and his family are no longer recorded in the record. The author begins to regard his family as an objective existence and observes it from a distance. The husband's promotion to a high position seems to have nothing to do with the author's world. Although I also recorded a few times when Kanye came to visit me when there was a fire nearby, but overall the psychological distance has become longer and longer. The focus of the diary is on the children around me.

Because of Goya's paintings and Spain, Hota Zenei traveled to foreign countries in the 1970s and 1980s, and traveled all over the Iberian Peninsula: the historical city of Santiago de Compostela, located at the "extreme end of the earth"; Aragon, which witnessed the intersection and fusion of heterogeneous cultures; and the road to independence. The author also visited Andorra, which is jointly managed by France and Spain, the Basque Country, which has one of the oldest languages in Europe, and the Jewish settlement on the island of Majorca, which have long been neglected and marginalized groups. While appreciating the mountains and rivers of various places, Zenue Hotta narrates the historical process and social changes of Spain and surrounding areas over thousands of years in a free and natural style. In particular, his reflections on the cruelty of war and his understanding of the diversity of human civilization reflect the author's global vision and broad horizons that surpass those of his contemporaries.

"Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is a novel by the British writer Hardy, one of the "Wessex Series". The novel tells the story of the heroine Tess, who was born into a poor hawker family. Her parents asked her to go to a rich old woman's house to meet relatives. As a result, she was seduced by the young master Alec. Later, she fell in love and got engaged to Claire, the son of a pastor. On their wedding night, she confessed her past misfortune to her husband, but she was not forgiven. The two separated, and her husband went to Brazil. A few years later, Tess met Alec again, who pestered her. At this time, she had to live with her enemy due to her family's financial difficulties. Soon after Claire returned from abroad, she expressed regret to her wife for her past ruthlessness. In this case, Tess painfully felt that it was Alec D'Urberville who made her lose Angel for the second time and she killed him angrily. Eventually she was captured and hanged.

In addition to being an actor, director, producer, and painter, Ha Jung-woo shares another unique label in this book: a "walking maniac" who walks 30,000 steps a day, or even 100,000 steps a day. In his opinion, walking is the easiest way to stay healthy and happy. When you are exhausted physically and mentally, when you are depressed, or when you are puzzled, go for a walk, so that your rusty body and mind will begin to become moisturized. This book records Ha Jung-woo's acting experience and changes in his mood since his debut 20 years ago, including the mood of becoming a director for the first time, the review after the movie failed miserably at the box office, how to survive the trough of his acting career, how to use food and walking to change his mood, etc. The book also shares many unique "river philosophy of life". Choose the path you want to take, know your own pace, don't force it, and go at your own pace. They believe that elegant art and a stable life are incompatible. But I can firmly say that all the good works I know come from a good life. There is no day without problems or troubles for anyone. Not only movies, but the basis for my decision-making on certain choices is probably "people". I don't simply work with successful people or people who give amazing conditions, but I will observe what kind of mentality he has to shoot the film and what meaning his work has. Through this book, you will see a delicate, gentle, self-consistent and humorous Ha Zhengyu. The book also contains nearly a hundred rare life photos, which comprehensively show the three-dimensional and real Ha Zhengyu behind a halo.

You don't need to change too much to live a wonderful life. This is the psychological comfort Paul gives us. At the same time, he also uses his success in a secular sense to clearly tell us the feasibility of this matter in the real world. This is one of the important insights we can get from reading this book. From a content perspective, in this book full of insights, Paul uses the eyes of a hacker and the heart of a painter to reveal why the world is what it is today and predict its future. In Paul's eyes, hackers are creators and children of the Internet. They have a restless heart. Although they are often regarded as nerds, they use their own efforts to lay the foundation for a new world of the Internet. There is no doubt that the world we live in has been and will continue to be profoundly changed by hackers. Therefore, by understanding hackers, we will also understand the world better. In this book, the author talks to us about three aspects related to hackers: first, how hackers grow and view the world; second, how hackers work and influence the world; third, hackers' tools and working methods. In fact, in all 15 articles, Paul discusses content that goes far beyond what hackers are concerned about, and uses a humorous touch to show his thinking on the major issues that everyone cares about and is affected by in the broadest possible way. Whether it is creating wealth, how to design good products, or how to live consistently in a world full of dissent. It can be said that no matter what stage of life we ​​are in, we will get inspiration from reading this book.

In 1978, our company launched the 11-volume "The Complete Works of Shakespeare", which was well received after being put into the market. Over the years, this set of books has become a collector's item for enthusiastic readers. Next year, 2014, will be the 350th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and the 70th anniversary of the death of translator Zhu Shenghao. If the binding design style of the 1978 edition of Shakespeare's complete works is imitated, and the two missing works of Shakespeare translated by Mr. Lu Yuan are added, a paperback "Shakespeare Complete Works Commemorative Edition" will be released to satisfy nostalgic needs and differentiate it from the eight-volume hardcover complete works.

If you keep looking for the meaning of life, you will never live it. The only real duty of a person born into this absurd world is to survive. It is awareness of one's own life, one's own resistance, one's own freedom.