Personal Library -- Hamlet

Author: (American) Shakespeare Zhu Shenghao
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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 in front of computers and all kinds of machines all day, have turned the Earth into a village with wires, fiber optic 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, 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 continuously accumulate the strangeness that comes from the depths of our hearts. For this, we long for a deeper understanding, a desire for a connection of the soul; a desire for a return to a way of traveling—before traveling ten thousand miles, put a few books in our spiritual backpacks so that our steps and souls can go further. A spiritual journey does not require "writing essays in youth and exhausting oneself in studies in old age," nor does it require hanging the headboard to study or stealing light through the wall. Nor does it require a red sleeve adding fragrance or never putting down a book. 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; carrying it with you, reading anytime, anywhere, and in any state of mind is the purpose of the library. The selected titles in the library are all the timeless classics that have been refined after exposing their souls and being washed by the tides in foreign 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 the fragrance of osmanthus." 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 anytime, anywhere, to gather wisdom piece by piece and to understand life in the spiritual journey. Reading classics, with the least expense, reaches the farthest distance of life.
The plot of Hamlet is mainly about this prince, who is young, wise, decisive, and brave, hearing from the ghost of his father that his uncle committed murder, seized the throne, and deceived his sister into becoming his queen after he took the throne. This prince, keeping the matter absolutely secret, immediately resolves to take decisive action, first to verify the revelation of the ghost of his father, and then to seek ways to punish the evil and clear the dark clouds that cover the court; as for his own gains and losses, safety and danger, life and death, honor and disgrace, he does not even think about them.