Homer Epic Stories - Fragrance Book

Author: Homer (Ancient Greece), translated by Liu Yuanping
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Publishing Date: 2004-09-01
Features: ▼Complete Content ▼Sandalwood Aroma ▼Compact and Portable ▼Original Illustrations ▼Easy to Carry
As the ancients said, "Travel ten thousand miles and read ten thousand books." For modern people, traveling ten thousand miles is easy, but reading ten thousand books is difficult. The wheels of technology are sweeping across the world at an astonishing speed. Modern people, busy day and night in front of computers and all kinds of machines, have turned the Earth into a village with wires, fiber optics, tracks, or air routes. With a click of the mouse, we can paste ourselves anywhere in the world. However, when faced with vast civilizations, lacking the foundation of reading ten thousand books, we not only frequently encounter the awkwardness of "meeting face to face but not recognizing each other," but we also accumulate an ever-growing sense of strangeness from the depths of our hearts. For this reason, we yearn for a deeper understanding, for a connection of the soul; we yearn for a return to a way of traveling—before traveling ten thousand miles, first pack a few books into our spiritual backpacks, so that our steps and souls can go even further.
A spiritual journey does not require "writing poems in youth and studying until the hair turns white," nor does it require hanging the head on the beam, breaking through the wall to steal light, or having a red sleeve add fragrance while never putting the book down. A spiritual journey only requires reading a few classics in the leisure of life. Novels, essays, and poems can all be made into a nourishing soup for the soul; buses, subways, and even the palm of your hand can be your desk.
Therefore, we have tailor-made a "pocket library" for busy urban dwellers. Classics are the soul of the library; easy accessibility is its essence; reading anytime, anywhere, and in any way is its purpose. The selected works in the library are all timeless classics that have been refined through hardship and trials in different civilizations. The illustrations, carefully chosen and painstakingly collected from hundreds of rare and private collections, are a true restoration of the essence of the classics. The small format design makes it as clever as a wallet, and the special printing process ensures that every book will "have the fragrance of sandalwood filling the sleeves."
Classics are not afraid of time, but life cannot withstand the erosion of "time flies." The charm of classics is better seen than heard. It is better to use them to mend the gaps in our time, to add value to the fragments of our days; it is better to use on-the-go reading to gather wisdom piece by piece, and to understand life in the journey of the soul.
Reading classics, with the least expense, reach the furthest in life.