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You have only one purpose in reading him: "for life." - Flaubert. Traveling through more than four hundred years of life wisdom and philosophy. It is loved by writers such as Voltaire, Flaubert, Byron, Emerson, Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and Gide. The translation recommended by translator Xu Yuanchong, "The Complete Essays of Montaigne", has a total of 107 chapters, about one million words, each chapter is of different lengths, and the structure is clear and natural. With his special keen perception, Montaigne recorded his intellectual and spiritual development, leaving extremely precious spiritual wealth for future generations. For more than four hundred years, history has proven that Montaigne is an immortal figure like Bacon, Shakespeare and other great writers. His works are an analysis of various ideological trends and knowledge in the sixteenth century. They are known as the "philosophy of life". They occupy an important position in the history of French prose and are the first of essay-type works.

Italian writer and popular philosophy pioneer Luciano de Crescenzo is a minor literary classic. According to Don Genaro Bellavista, a professor who was a native of Naples: There are too many legends and written records about Naples and its inhabitants, its seas and Mount Vesuvius. Life in Naples is something else, a subtle art. Goethe once wrote with joy and surprise: Only in Naples everyone lives in an intoxicated forgetfulness. But not only this, Luciano de Crescenzo writes: smiles, mutual help, the wisdom of life, always following the "secret recipe" of Professor Bellavista, which is also easy to remember: half love, half freedom.

Miura Shion said: The articles I usually write are almost clumsy, but this book is different. This book can be said to be a work that I wrote seriously! Although what is recorded in the book is "ordinary slow-paced life", it is these ordinary happy daily lives that make us feel: for ordinary us, life is not always satisfactory. But no matter how difficult, cruel or ordinary life is, we must live passionately and live like a real person.

"Pillow" was the first of Japanese essay literature. It was written around 1001. It is the representative work of Seishonagon, a female writer during the Heian period in Japan. It is as famous as "The Tale of Genji" and is known as a double gem in Japanese Heian period literature. It is also known as the three major essays in Japanese literature together with the two books "Abbot's Chronicle" and "Turancao" that appeared later. The book is divided into 20 volumes and has a total of 305 paragraphs. It is divided into three parts: collection, diary and random thoughts. Most of them are what she saw and heard during her tenure in the palace. The emotions are delicate, the writing is light, and its authenticity and randomness can be seen everywhere. The so-called "reading starts from the page where the wind blows" is the charm of this book.

Use slowness to gain speed, use simplicity to gain complexity, and live a life of sacrifice. Happiness is never easy to come by! Many people attribute the global happiness index to Nordic institutions, welfare, resources and other factors, but is it really just that? What is happiness? Materials are important, but just "enough" is enough. The happiness of the Nordic people comes more from a simple, natural, and peaceful mentality, as well as the warmth of family and personal efforts. These are things that we can learn and practice, and they are what our tradition has always advocated since ancient times. Happiness is a choice. We don't have to go far away to adapt to other people's lives, and we don't have to exhaust ourselves for other people's values. Follow Luo Fu and experience the confident mentality, simple lifestyle, endless self-improvement spirit and warm and healing family concepts that can truly achieve happiness. The world is much bigger than Northern Europe, and your heart is much bigger than anywhere you want to reach.

A witty and atypical guide to life, telling us how to take a meaningful vacation, how to travel with salmon, how to avoid talking about football, how to take a train in the United States, how to talk about animals, and even how to become a Knight of Malta... Joking, provocative, and humorous, it is an incredible combination of profoundness and worldliness. With his naughty wit and genius-like cynicism, Eco answers questions we have never thought of and questions the answers we are accustomed to. Football, porn, and coffee pots, these seemingly "brainless" topics, become both interesting and profound in his writing, leading us to peek into the absurdity of modern life.

"Becoming a Star: Diary of an Astronaut Cadet" is an essay published in 2018 by Samantha Cristoforetti, Italy's first female astronaut. The work is divided into two parts. The first part mainly introduces how Samantha went from being a fighter pilot to becoming an astronaut trainee through the European Space Agency's selection process. With the help of detailed plots, it depicts the severe tests and tempers that an astronaut needs to undergo before actually flying into space, and also demonstrates their extraordinary intelligence, endurance and professionalism. There is no shortage of descriptions of the details and usage techniques of spacecraft and related equipment, which improves the level of the work from a technical level. At the same time, the various experiences and psychological activities of an individual who have experienced it are added, making the work closer to a literary work rather than an ordinary popular science reading. The second part records Samantha's 200 days of space life on the International Space Station from the launch of the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft on November 23, 2014 to the return of the spacecraft on June 11, 2015. Samantha unfolded a picture of a space journey for us with delicate brushstrokes: being sent into space by a rocket in a spaceship, docking with the International Space Station, the first experience of weightlessness, eating, drinking, eating and drinking in space, physical exercises, scientific experiments, etc. These curious and very interesting things, as well as the magnificent miracle of the Milky Way changing outside the dome cabin between the 16 sunrises and sunsets in a day, were recounted in Samantha's writing.

This book selects sixteen interviews with British national writer and Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan during his thirty-year writing career. They were first published in different publications and in various formats, including books, literary magazines, weekly magazines, and recordings. In these interviews, McEwan clarifies the underlying themes of his writing, showing how he continues to explore, express, and refine his insights about writing, science, relationships, politics, and human nature. I believe that both general readers and scholars will find these interviews of unique value: they not only provide in-depth insights into McEwan's works, but also provide a sense of his distinctive literary personality and growth as a writer.

A landmark classic in the field of feminist literature. Susan Cuba, a well-known feminist scholar and co-author of "The Madwoman in the Attic", provides a 20,000-word introduction. A Room of One's Own is based on two lectures Woolf gave at Cambridge University in 1928. In 1929, Woolf combined the two speeches into one, entitled "Women and Novel", and published it in the American magazine "Forum". It was later published as a book under the title "A Room of One's Own", which caused a sensation. The style of "Room" is humorous, quirky, and full of quotations. It uses sharp words to interrogate the injustice and oppression of "women" as the second gender in legal and social history, and eloquently puts forward the importance of economic foundation and independent space to women's mental freedom. There is also a wonderful discussion on the idea that "great souls are androgynous". Woolf encouraged women to break the cage in their minds, bravely go to the outside world, cultivate free habits, and create to their heart's content.

Montaigne (1533-1592) was the most important humanist writer after the French Renaissance and a cold observer of human emotions. In 1572, he began writing the "Collected Essays", which is called "a collection of all kinds of knowledge in the sixteenth century". Among sixteenth-century writers, few are as revered and accepted by modern people as Montaigne. He was an intellectual authority and critic in France before the Enlightenment, and an encyclopedic scholar who conducted dispassionate studies of various national cultures, especially Western culture. Judging from his thoughts and feelings, people seem to regard him as a modern man in his time. His prose, mainly philosophical essays, is world-famous for its rich ideological connotation and is known as the "treasure house of ideas." The Complete Essays of Montaigne, translated by Mr. Ma Zhencheng alone, won the first Fu Lei Translation and Publishing Award. This edition of "The Essays of Montaigne" was specially selected by the translator for our agency. It can be said that the best of the three volumes of the "Complete Works" are contained in it. It can truly be called a comprehensive and accurate selection of Montaigne's essays and the translation is excellent and elegant.

"Collection of Bacon's Essays" contains a total of fifty-nine prose essays by the master of prose Bacon, covering all aspects of human life, including the well-known famous essays "On Reading" and "On Beauty". The author is knowledgeable and well-versed in the world, and has thought-provoking unique insights into the issues discussed. The language is concise, the writing is beautiful, the reasoning is thorough, and the aphorisms are repeated. It has been deeply loved by readers from all over the world for hundreds of years.

The father of "Little Naughty Nicholas", the idol of Taiwanese painter Jimmy, the royal painter of "The New Yorker", and the French national treasure cartoon master Sambé brings you a painting version of the music feast. Music lit up Sangbei's life, and the lightness of jazz was integrated into his brushstrokes. Sambei's indissoluble bond with music can be traced back to the radio at home in his childhood. Through the radio, he discovered the magical jazz and those extremely interesting jazz musicians. Even if his parents were quarreling, it didn't matter to him, because in his imaginary world, he became a member of a jazz band and traveled all over the country to perform. He used music to soothe his sensitive soul and escape from his unhappy childhood. Sambei eventually became a cartoonist, but music gave him countless inspirations. He talked about his favorite musicians, Debussy, Duke Ellington, Ravel... He recalled the first time he played Gershwin's "Lover", the first time he discovered that a magical record could hold "the whole orchestra", and the first time he invited Goscinny, the author of "Little Naughty Nicholas", to his home to listen to music. This book contains a large number of Sambei's unpublished works on musical themes, and is accompanied by a 30,000-word interview transcript. This book is Sambei's highest tribute to music.

Over 20 long years, 18 selected interviews, one book will help you understand the literary world of Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro. In these fascinating interviews, Ishiguro openly expresses his admiration for Chekhov and Dostoevsky, and clearly explains his creative process and the evolution of his self-perception. The interviews included in this book record the evolution of Ishiguro's self-perception and his artistic and ideological concerns. The editor aimed to collect various types of interviews with different styles: the writer had either relaxed conversations or in-depth systematic philosophical conversations with interviewers from print news media, broadcasting and academic institutions around the world. Some interviews are short and general, while others are longer and aim to discuss a specific topic in detail. Because Kazuo Ishiguro inevitably repeats himself in most interviews at every book promotion, the editors selected interviews that most briefly capture the evolution of his artistic acumen. Each interview in the book reveals a significant aspect of the author's writing career, which spanned a quarter of a century.

In 1986, Paul Theroux came to China again after six years. He not only visited prosperous cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, but also reached border areas such as Langxiang in Heilongjiang and Turpan in Xinjiang. He walked to the land of China and chatted with all kinds of people, including young people practicing oral English in the English Corner of Shanghai People's Park, students who wanted to do import and export business, intellectuals who had just experienced a catastrophe... He used a sharp and humorous tone to complain all the way, but he also used a calm and rational perspective to analyze the character of the Chinese people and discover the daily life and changes in thinking of the Chinese people under the changing times. Since the 1980s, there have been tremendous changes, but our current swings and difficulties are all familiar.

This book is a collection of conversations by Franz Kafka. In 1920, literary young man Janosz first visited Kafka, who was working in an insurance company, and a friendship began between him and his friend. For more than two years, Kafka developed a series of insightful thoughts and expressions around topics such as literature, art, reading, writing, freedom, love, and loneliness, during countless discussions in the office or while walking and chatting in Prague. He used books to build a barrier against his own limitations and inertia, and against the desk and chair in front of him. Janosz recorded these sentences that sparkle with thoughts, giving us the honor to hear the true voice of this literary saint. In this book, Kafka not only talks about daily thoughts on literature, writing, and art, but also talks about universal topics such as work, human freedom, family, and urban life. The golden sentences appear frequently and are very exciting. For example, talking about health and disease: "For healthy people, life is an unconscious and unspoken escape from the awareness that we are mortal. Disease is always a warning and at the same time a struggle. Therefore, illness, pain and illness are also very important sources of piety." For example, talking about writers and language: "Language is only lent to the living for an indeterminate period of time. We can only use it. In fact, it belongs to the dead and the unborn. Possession of language must be careful."

This book records a conversation between two old friends, Jeffrey Rosen and Ginsburg, that lasted for nearly two decades. Here, Ginsburg unreservedly shared the issues of the times in the eyes of a justice.

This book is the latest work of writer Shin Do-hyun. It is an "introductory book on humanities" that guides the author through the entire process of learning humanities. Literature, history and philosophy are collectively referred to as literature, history and philosophy, that is, humanities. This book depicts the overall appearance of humanities and can be called an introductory education book in humanities. The author is not limited to theoretical knowledge, but focuses on the use of humanities and its relationship with a better life, and introduces his own learning experience. The author has prepared this book for those confused readers who want to learn humanities who do not know where to start or how to start. It answers questions one by one about what humanities is, why we should learn humanities, and how to learn humanities better. In the process of reading, readers will also meet major Eastern and Western humanists such as Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Kant, Rousseau and Alain Badiou, think about the meaning of their own lives, and gain the power of thinking to look at the world.

"The Myth of Sisyphus" is a philosophical treatise by the French author Camus, which is a concentrated expression of his "philosophy of the absurd" thoughts. Among all Camus's literary works and philosophical essays, "absurdity" is the most important concept he emphasized. Camus believed that the absurd was born from "the confrontation between the call of mankind and the irrational silence of the world." In this book, he analyzes and explores the thoughts of many philosophers, such as Jaspers, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Heidegger, and Shestov, and also comments on the literary masterpieces of Dostoevsky and others, all with the purpose of elucidating his concept of "absurdity", and further points out: "To live is to experience the absurd. To experience the absurd, the first thing is to look directly at it." He guides us to understand our own destiny like Sisyphus, resist our own destiny, and live without hesitation.

"The Earl's Family Letters" is a collection of 320 letters written by the Earl of Chesterfield, a British politician, diplomat and writer in the 18th century, to his son who was studying in Europe. In these hundreds of letters, the earl talked with his son and gave him guidance on his studies and life, covering life experience, learning methods, ideology and ethics, eating and dressing, dealing with others, and all aspects of European politics, military, economy, diplomacy, history, language, culture, society and customs. It is not only a comprehensive book of life wisdom, but also a true record of Europe in the 18th century, which is worth reading and studying.

The Japanese revere the Western Regions, and even today, the Western Regions still have great charm. Since I started writing novels - of course thanks to the baptism of the Western Regions I received during my student days, I have written several novels based on the history of the Western Regions. Such as "Dunhuang", "Loulan", "Flood", "Kunlun Jade", "People from a Foreign Land", etc. Since being invited to visit China many times, I have increasingly felt a temptation. I really want to see the stage where the novel I wrote is about. Now, I have finally arrived here - the place that has haunted me for more than forty years. This is the Western Region, this is the Silk Road.

"Friends of Nature" is a fresh and interesting essay. This book describes nature from several angles, writes about the close relationship between nature and human beings, and the impact of nature on human life. Wright is a master of describing nature because she has devoted her life to environmental protection, has always maintained concern and attention for the species around us, and regards all things in nature as friends. Therefore, she always used to personify nature in her writing. She tried her best to understand their feelings and describe their habits, just like understanding their friends or neighbors. She describes swamps, flowers, birds, pools, gardens, and the impact of climate change on the natural world throughout the year. Her writing is so beautiful that it is shocking.

"Chasing Spring" is a nature essay by Thomas. When we read Thomas's nature essays, what we feel is more than just poetry. Through the prose-like articles, what we see is the monologue of the author's inner world, the distress of urban residents, the yearning for rural scenery, the desire to find roots in the land, and the persistence of protecting a piece of pure land. The author uses beautiful writing to describe the scenery of the British countryside, and has fresh and delicate descriptions of the natural environment in different seasons. Reading it is like appreciating an oil painting.

"If you look at life with a close-up lens, life is a tragedy, but if you look at it with a long lens, it's a comedy." The 85-year-old mother was suddenly diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, and the 93-year-old hearing-impaired father began to do housework to take care of his mother. Her daughter Naoko Nobutomo used her camera to record the touching stories of her parents supporting each other after being married for more than 60 years and her mother's fight against the disease. Facing old age and disease that no one can resist, how will the mother soothe her soul? Faced with the situation where work and family cannot be reconciled, what choice did Naoko make?

Kotaro Takamura, the national poet and spiritual mentor of Japan, lived in seclusion in the mountains for seven years. He turned what he saw, heard, and thought during this experience into simple words, advocating getting closer to nature and returning to the original heart, and guiding people to subtract from their lives and add to their thoughts. Yataro Matsuura has recommended "Four Seasons of the Mountain" in many books, and personally went to the mountain hut where Kotaro Takamura lived to express his respect for Kotaro Takamura.

With 18 years of practice, psychiatrist Ken Shimizu has been responsible for psychological counseling for cancer patients and their families. He recorded the conversations with dying patients, frontline consultation experiences and reflections that moved him most, and found that: realizing that death will come early is a positive thing for us. We will feel the existence and brilliance of life more keenly because we know that everything will eventually disappear; understanding that life is limited gives us the motivation to live. Therefore, he named the book - If I am not in this world one year later. The author regards cancer as an opportunity to think about oneself, life and death, and gives us a lesson on death that touches our hearts from the aspects of psychology, clinical medicine, and personal experience. And ask everyone: If impermanence is pronounced, what kind of life will we choose next?

"Tsugaru" contains three masterpieces by Japanese literary giant Dazai Osamu: "Tsugaru", "Aomori" and "Sado". The main body of this book, the article "Tsugaru", is a custom written by Osamu Dazai for the Tsugaru area, his hometown, commissioned by Oyama Bookstore. It was first published in 1944. Dazai Osamu's works such as "The Disqualification of the World" and "Setting Sun" are always filled with a gloomy and decadent atmosphere. But "Tsugaru" is different. He returned to his hometown after many years, met his relatives and friends, and re-understood the customs, history and culture of his hometown, and conveyed a strong sense of nostalgia in his writing. Osamu Dazai's representative writing style is one of contradiction, decadence, struggle, despair, and loneliness. "Tsugaru" is Osamu Dazai's warm work, full of love for his hometown and attachment to the world. After reading "Tsugaru", you will have a complete understanding of Dazai Osamu, and you will also understand why Dazai Osamu gradually became decadent after leaving his hometown and the people in his hometown.

When different lives come together, all kinds of stories will happen. "Education of Love" is a heart-warming chapter that shows people a picture full of love; in "The Story of Six Children", the naive children give up their beloved treasures to help others. Although they are young, they have great benevolence that helps everyone; "Tiger!" Tiger! "Mowgli, the wolf boy who grew up in the jungle, exudes the masculinity, vitality and liveliness of a young man, which is the life of a brave man; and "The Great Stone Face" is the life of a wise man. Ernest adopts natural methods, is quiet and indifferent, and can be a role model for people. Freedom and self-esteem are connected. There is no freedom in clinging to others. This is the truth told in "Cat's Paradise". We all want to be happy, but what is happiness? Maybe we can find the answer from "Blue Bird".

Natsume Soseki's prose essays have been continuously translated and introduced in the country in recent years and are deeply loved by readers. "Nagahi Essays" is another important collection of essays by Natsume Soseki after "Ten Nights of Dreams". It not only contains Soseki's description of Japanese people and customs, but also his reminiscences of his time studying in England. The writing may be humorous and warm, dreamlike or dreamlike; or it may be profound and philosophical.

This is a collection of naturalistic short stories, including a total of 25 of the author's early essays, diaries, and short stories. Most of them describe subtle fragments of life and vague memories in dreams, such as wine, friends, illness, travel, and hometown. It reflects the life scenes around Japanese literati during the Meiji period. The writing and ink are mostly about what the eyes see, what the ears hear, and what the body feels, like fragments of dreams and reality cut out piece by piece.

This book contains twelve classic works by Torahiko Terada, one flower and one speechless. Most of them are based on the author's real experiences when he was a boy, and are full of human touch. These works reflect the keen perspective of scientists and the elegance of poetry of writers. They contain the mystery and philosophy of life and the universe. They are beautiful, fresh, meaningful and moving. Each article is short, clear and interspersed with a large number of beautiful pictures. Although these works were written over a hundred years ago, they remain timeless.

"Sand Country Almanack" is Leopold's masterpiece and the result of his lifelong observation, experience and thinking about nature. In the form of a natural essay, it vividly describes the beauty of the natural ecology of Shaxiang in different seasons, and praises the beauty of the "equal treatment and harmonious symbiosis" relationship between people and land, rivers, lakes, animals and plants. It calls on people to pay attention to ecological ethics and believes that only by "maintaining the overall harmony, stability and beauty of the ecological community" can humans enhance their own welfare. Leopold's land ethics has become the ideological basis for the actions of American environmental organizations and government agencies. He himself is also recognized as the most famous forerunner of ecological environmentalism. This book includes the evocative illustrations drawn by Charlie Schwartz in the earliest English version, which greatly enhances the readability and beauty of the book.

This book is a collection of articles approved by Einstein himself, including his articles on life, science, politics, religion, education, Jews, economy, peace and other issues. By reading this book, we can not only understand Einstein's attitude towards life, keen insight and deep concern for the destiny of mankind, but also gain some understanding of why he was able to achieve such great scientific achievements.

When the Christmas lights are lit again, Song Ji's long wait is over. For her, this long wait is like a kind of faith, a deep faith that has never stopped... With the bell of the New Year, Jupiter finally faces the constellation Gemini. After returning home, the house was empty and there was no sound at all. She looked through all the rooms one by one. Jinnah is no longer here, but Song Ji is still looking for Jinnah seriously.

"Walden" is a record of the American writer Thoreau who lived alone by Walden Pond, describing what he saw, heard and thought during more than two years. It is a model of American nature literature and the prose classic with the largest number of readers in the contemporary United States. It has influenced Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi and others, thereby rewriting the destiny of some nations and countries. Character, his work "Walden" is a classic of American literature and world literature. On July 4, 1845, 28-year-old Thoreau came alone to the shores of Walden Pond two miles away from Concord, built a cabin and lived there. In the book, he describes in detail the two years and two months he spent in a regenerated forest on the shores of Walden Pond and his many thoughts during this period. This is a masterpiece of wisdom that brings peace of mind and full of hope. When people gradually lose the tranquility of the countryside, it is read and missed by the whole world.

"The Island Garden" is a classic work of nature literature and the last work published by the "Island Poet" Celia Leighton Thaxter during her lifetime. She patiently told how she planted flowers and took care of the garden from spring to autumn, how she introduced precious flower seeds to the island, how she carefully cultivated flower seedlings in eggshells, how she battled wits and courage with birds that were both annoying and cute, and also recorded what she harvested after hard work. Rich spiritual rewards... She brought her lifelong deep love for flowers, plants, birds, and islands, her unique life philosophy and insights, and her noble and outstanding aesthetic taste into this work that tells how she took care of, tended and protected the island garden with the greatest love. The brushwork is full of warmth, calm and simple, which is her "flower in her old age and the swan song of her life". After Celia's death, her small garden was reduced to ashes in a fire, but "The Island Garden" has been handed down and has been published again and again. It and the legendary island garden, as well as the beautiful new world of people, flowers, plants and birds created by the female writer, have become the "spiritual hometown" of her contemporaries of literary and artistic celebrities and generations of subsequent generations. In 1978, scientists at Shoals Marine Laboratory recruited gardeners to partially restore the island garden, planting the same flowers and trees that Celia had planted. Celia's small garden was once the "spiritual garden" of many painters, musicians and poets of the same generation, and was their spiritual comfort and source of inspiration. Today, the legend of Celia and her island garden continues.

"The Bacon Essays" is a collection of essays by Francis Bacon. The content covers almost every aspect of human life. As a knowledgeable and sophisticated philosopher and thinker, Bacon had a unique and thought-provoking approach to the issues he discussed.

Grandma Moses created more than 1,600 works in her lifetime. "It's never too late to do what you love most" Behind each work, there is a vivid and touching story. "It's Never Too Late to Do What You Love Most" contains more than 300 of Grandma Moses's best works, accompanied by Grandma Moses' real and touching inspirational stories. "It's Never Too Late to Do What You Love Most" uses a combination of pictures and text to show readers Grandma Moses' love for life.

In a busy life, pressure, fatigue, frustration, and confusion can easily make a young heart feel anxious and exhausted physically and mentally. The talented French writer Daudet faced such a dilemma. He chose to retreat from Paris, which many people yearned for, to his hometown of Provence to recuperate physically and mentally, wandering among the pine forests, meadows, seas, river valleys, hillsides and other natural scenery in southern France. With simple, direct, pure and delicate brushwork, he miraculously transformed the chirping of birds, the fragrance of flowers, the rolling of clouds, the blowing of the wind, the shining of stars, the roar of sea waves, the melodious ringtones, and the smell of lavender into 24 heart-healing letters, bringing spiritual nourishment to countless readers, accompanying them out of the trough of life, and making the long nights no longer lonely. It is known as the "timeless pillow book". Open "The Mill Letters" to help you discover the beauty of daily life and gain spiritual freedom!

"In Praise of Shadows" is a collection of essays by Junichiro Tanizaki, a well-known Japanese writer. It includes eleven classic representative works such as "In Praise of Shadows", "The Story of Laziness" and "Memory of the Taste of Childhood". It condenses Junichiro Tanizaki's exquisite views on oriental aesthetics. Every small object appears interesting in his writing. Starting from everyday objects that can be seen everywhere, Junichiro Tanizaki narrates the unique charm of architecture, home furnishings, appliances, tea ceremonies, food, body, love, drama, etc. In elegant and simple language, he reveals the essence of Japanese aesthetics, discovers beauty in the trivial daily life, explores the power to heal people's hearts, and takes you to appreciate the beauty and calmness of the world.

"Hunter's Notes" uses a hunter's hunting activities as clues to describe the rural life in Russia in the mid-19th century. In Turgenev's writings, many characters such as landlords, housekeepers, mill wives, town doctors, aristocratic intellectuals, serfs, peasant children, etc. Are all vividly portrayed, truly showing the life styles of people from all walks of life and opening up a broad horizon for readers. In the beautiful natural scenery, various tragedies occurred, which reflected the author's silent accusation against the serfdom system and also expressed his pursuit and yearning for a better life.

This book is the second volume of the three-volume "Kafka's Diary". It is a compilation of diaries written by Kafka between 1912 and 1914. Kafka always observed his own heart, such as inner indifference, monotony, calmness and other states, and expressed his most acute inner feelings in the diary. It also records his interactions with his friends Max and Welch and some of their views on society and the times. In addition, it can also be seen from the diary that Kafka was a lover of recitation and speech, and also had a deep passion for opera and other performances. It can be said that literature and art are the entirety of Kafka's life and spiritual world.

This book is the first volume of the three-volume series "Kafka's Diary". In it, Kafka uses profound self-reflection to analyze every moment of meaning that life projects onto him. From this we can see his evaluation of famous writers such as Dickens and Goethe, his grasp of the moments of inspiration in his own inner world, his delicate description of the fluctuating and restless state of the spiritual world, and his special psychological world caused by insomnia and strange dreams. The expression of stream of consciousness... Kafka's diary shows the contradiction between time and space in his heart, changes in mental and physical conditions, entanglements in the emotional world, confusion in life, and his thoughts on social ethics. Reading his diary, you can understand the real life state of this lonely and great writer, and provide a reference for understanding the connotation of his literary works and solving the mysteries of his life.

This is a selection of love letters written by the great French writer Balzac to his lover and later wife Madame Hanska.

This book is Woody Allen's latest collection of short essays, including a total of eighteen articles, ten of which were originally published in The New Yorker and eight of which are new works. In the book, Woody Allen cuts into various cultural events from a unique perspective, such as popular movies being adapted into best-selling novels, a stuntman kidnapped by a mistaken star, Nietzsche's recipes and linear theory, and explores social news, such as the sale of prayers and conductive materials that can charge mobile phones. Fuhe Sotheby's auctions sky-high truffles, telling about trivial matters in life, such as nannies writing books to expose their employers, various ways to enter high-end kindergartens, gifted teenagers and false advertisements. In whimsical scenes, he uses extreme irony and banter to show the pitiful and ridiculous world in his eyes.

In the early postwar Japan, a group of new writers emerged in the literary world, forming a huge creative trend in Japan - postwar literature. War novels are the most important force in Japanese postwar literature. This book combines the historical and cultural context in which the works were born to study Japanese post-war war novels from both macro and micro levels. First, the representative works of postwar writers Noma Hiroshi, Umezaki Haruo, Takeda Taijun, Ooka Shohei and Hotta Zenue are interpreted to reveal the individual characteristics of postwar writers' war novels. On this basis, this paper conducts a comprehensive discussion on the themes, creative techniques, characters, views of war, etc. Of postwar war novels, summarizes some common characteristics of postwar war novels, and reveals their distinctive postwar characteristics.

As an outstanding representative of contemporary American virtue ethics, Alasdair MacIntyre uses narrative as his ethical research method, making his theory a dynamic description of the search for narrative truth. His ethical thought marks the narrative turn of Western ethics. In this turn, ethics uses literary narrative to replace strong rules and laws, uses literary narrative to elaborate ethical propositions, and organically combines narrative as a rhetorical method with narrative that expresses abstract ethical thinking. MacIntyre uses narrative to construct virtue character, rational tradition and interpretive truth, making narrative a paradigm of ethics; this ethical narrative also presents the knowledge, tradition and truth of literature, making ethics the ontology of literature, and making ethical narratives have the original meaning of literature.

Helen Keller's masterpiece prose "If You Give Me Three Days of Light", from the perspective of a person who has lost her light, warns all healthy people to cherish life and everything given by the Creator. This book contains Keller's famous speech "If you give me three days of light", and also translates the full text of "My Story" and "My World".

"Rambles" is Rousseau's posthumous work and the sequel to "Confessions". Rousseau's works advocate self-expression, express feelings, and love nature. These characteristics are more prominent in "Ramble" than in other works. The Rousseau in this work is Rousseau in his most innocent state. This work is the product of his intimate conversation with his own soul, and is an analysis and dissection of his own soul.

"Pillow" is a collection of essays by Japanese female writer Seishonagon during the Heian period. It was completed in the early 11th century. The author Seishonagon was a famous talented woman during the Heian period. This book mainly records the author's observations and random thoughts on daily life when he lived in the palace. The text is fresh and bright, the forms are varied, and the life scenes are warm and interesting. His writing style had a huge impact on the subsequent development of Japanese prose literature. In fact, before the completion of "Pillow", monogatari literature and diary literature had already appeared in Japan. "Pillow" by Seishonagon opened up a new field, and her essays laid the foundation for Japanese prose literature. It is known as Japan's three major essays together with "The Hojo Chronicles" by Kamo Nagaaki and "Uranso" by Kaneyoshi Yoshida that appeared later. This book is a collection of essays from Japan's fresh period. The work begins with "Spring is the best time at dawn" and is well-proportioned, with a total of more than 300 paragraphs. The full text is roughly divided into three configurations of paragraphs: one is a cluster configuration paragraph, the second is a short article configuration paragraph, and the third is a log recall configuration paragraph.

The famous work of the outstanding Russian writer Turgenev in the 19th century. This is a collection of essays describing rural life in Russia in the mid-19th century through hunters' hunting activities. The work takes a hunter's hunting as a clue and depicts many characters such as landlords, housekeepers, mill wives, town doctors, aristocratic intellectuals, serfs, peasant children, etc., Truly showing the life style of people from all walks of life in urban and rural areas in the era in which the author lived. With Turgenev's graceful narration, the natural scenery of Russia, 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. For readers in the 21st century, it is still an immortal work that provides infinitely beautiful artistic enjoyment and is rich in instruction.