Personal Library -- One Thousand and One Nights

Author: Xie Linhan
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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, optical cables, tracks, or air routes. With a click of the mouse, we can paste ourselves anywhere in 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, a heart-to-heart connection; we long for a return to a way of traveling—before traveling ten thousand miles, put a few books in our spiritual backpack so that our steps and hearts can go further. The journey of the soul 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. The journey of the soul 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, anytime, anywhere, and reading it at will is the purpose of the library. The selected works in the library are all the timeless classics that have been refined through the trials of different cultures; 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 to gather wisdom piece by piece and to understand life in the journey of the soul. Reading classics, with the least expense, to reach the furthest reaches of life. One Thousand and One Nights, also known as Arabian Nights, is a dazzling and colorful gem in the of world literature and art. For many years, its captivating stories have been loved by people of different countries, ethnicities, and regions, making it a valuable cultural treasure that opens the mind, cultivates taste, and delights people's spiritual lives. It is a cultural heritage of all humankind. From a thematic perspective, One Thousand and One Nights is an all-encompassing collection of folk tales—fairy tales, legends, fables, strange stories, anecdotes, and adventures from foreign lands, all woven into a series of interconnected stories. The geographical scope of the stories includes Iraq, Iran, Egypt, India, Turkey, China, and possibly even Greece in Europe, covering a vast area. It is generally believed that it was shaped over long years—perhaps after centuries of refinement—transforming from its original oral tradition to its current form, a crystallization of the wisdom of countless anonymous folk storytellers.