Personal Library -- The Three Musketeers

Author: (French) Alexandre Dumas
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: 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 the world at an astonishing speed. The modern people, busy day and night in front of computers and all kinds of machines, have turned the Earth into a village with wires, optical cables, tracks, or air routes. With a click of the mouse, we can paste ourselves anywhere in the world. However, in the face of vast civilizations, without 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 put a few books in our spiritual backpack so that our steps and souls can go even further. A spiritual journey does not require "writing poems in youth and exhausting oneself in studies in old age," nor does it require hanging a rope to study or stealing light through a wall. Nor does it require a red sleeve to add fragrance or a book in hand never set down. A spiritual journey only requires reading a few classics in the leisure of life. Novels, essays, and poems can all be made into soup for the soul; buses, subways, and even the palms of our hands can be our desks. Therefore, we have tailored a "pocket library" for busy urban dwellers. Classics are the soul of the library; easy to absorb is the essence of the library; reading anytime, anywhere, and in any way is the purpose of the library. The selected works in the library are all timeless classics that have been refined after exposing themselves to the storms of different civilizations; the illustrations, carefully selected and painstakingly collected from hundreds of rare books and private collections, are a true restoration of the essence of the classics. The small format design makes it as clever as a wallet; the special printing process makes every book "filled with hidden fragrance in 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 spiritual journey. Reading classics, with the least expense, to reach the furthest life. The Three Musketeers is a historical novel by the French romantic writer Alexandre Dumas. This book depicts the story of several musketeers serving the queen in the early 17th century during the reign of King Louis XIII of France, who travel to England to retrieve a string of diamonds for the Duke of Buckingham.