Personal Library -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Author: (British) Carol Ren Min
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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 across 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. Clicking the mouse, we can paste ourselves to any corner of the world. However, facing the vast civilization, 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 constantly accumulate the strangeness that comes from the bottom of our hearts. For this, we long for a deeper understanding, long for a connection of the soul; long for a return to a way of traveling—before traveling ten thousand miles, put a few books in the spiritual backpack to allow our steps and souls to go 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, chipping through the wall to steal light, nor does it require a red sleeve adding fragrance and not letting go of the 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 palm of the hand 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 way is the purpose of the library. The selected titles in the library are all the timeless classics that have been refined after exposing themselves to the trials 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 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 patch 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 perceive life in the spiritual journey. Reading classics, with the least travel expenses, to reach the furthest distance of life.
This is a middle-length fairy tale by British author Lewis Carroll. The story tells of a girl named Alice who, while dozing, suddenly sees a white rabbit in clothes running past. Alice follows the rabbit and falls into a black hole, falling for a long time before landing on a pile of dry leaves. She walks into a hall with many doors around. In the center of the hall, on a glass table, is a string of golden keys. She uses one of them to open a very small door, which leads to a beautiful garden. The door is too small for her to fit through, so later, after drinking a bottle of drink on the table, she shrinks to the size of a ten-inch tall person. She eats a cake under the table and grows to nine feet tall, making the door unenterable again. She cries desperately, and her tears form a river. The white rabbit appears, drops a fan, and she uses it to fan herself, shrinking back into a small person. She accidentally falls into her pool of tears and barely swims to the shore. Alice goes to the white rabbit's house and sees a bottle of drink on the shelf. After drinking half a bottle, her body grows, her head touches the ceiling, her arms stretch out the window, and she becomes immobile. The rabbit picks up stones and throws them at her, but the stones turn into cakes when they land. She eats them and immediately shrinks again, so she grabs the door and escapes, running into the forest and eating some mushrooms to restore her original shape. Alice enters the garden of a Duchess and meets the Red Queen K and the Queen Q. The Queen is easily angered and often cuts off people's heads. The Cheshire Cat angers the Queen and is sentenced to be beheaded. However, the cat's body disappears, and the executioner doesn't know how to cut a head without a body. In the end, the Queen orders Alice's head to be cut off for refusing to testify against the absurdity. Alice wakes up in self-defense. This fairy tale is considered a peak of 19th-century British absurd literature.